"long-term" support starts...when?

"long-term" support starts...when?

Posted Jun 3, 2006 1:14 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
Parent article: Ubuntu Dapper and the distribution business

I suppose installation technically doesn't fall into the same support category as maintenance of already installed packages. Nevertheless, I was surprised to learn today that Ubuntu's ~year-old bug with respect to "W95 extended" partitions appears to remain as unsquashed as ever:

Just downloaded Ubuntu dapper drake last night, and it still has this same problem. I have been a mandrake user for years, but wanted to try out Ubuntu due to all the good press. I tried hoary hedgehog a while back and gave up for this same reason. You would think by now they would have addressed this issue. I guess they expect you to blow away a whole hard drive on an install.

The bug apparently was reported last September, and possibly before that in January 2005. Nor does it appear to be due to an actual error on the drive or partition table; as noted in the first link above, fdisk has never had any trouble--only partman is broken.

Oh well. I personally have no problem going back to Slackware on the system in question (and probably Gentoo on my main box), so it's no longer a major concern for me. I was just a little surprised, given all the "easy to install" (Breezy) and "long-term support" (Dapper) hype. (FWIW, I never had any problems with the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD, aside from the fact that it's a lot slower than booting from disk.)

Greg

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