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LWN's 2013 PredictionsLWN's 2013 PredictionsPosted Jan 4, 2013 22:44 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: LWN's 2013 Predictions by mezcalero Parent article: LWN's 2013 Predictions
And you never get bug reports about bugs fixed in releases you made years ago but still running in ancient supported enterprise linux distros, either. Oh no never.
(Worse yet, sometimes the bug was never present in a release version at all, but the distro vendor picked up a prerelease! Sometimes you're lucky and they picked up the subsequent bugfix in an erratum, but even then there are some users who are too conservative to ever apply any bugfixes to their production systems at all because they might disrupt something, but who think that it makes sense to report the resulting long-fixed bugs to the upstream with great indignation, or rather to the first name that pops up in Google when they search for the name of the software...)
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LWN's 2013 Predictions Posted Jan 5, 2013 9:24 UTC (Sat) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Yeah, it happens, for some reason pretty much only with Ubuntu users in my experience. Maybe because they are in a huge majority. If I get a bug report for an older version, I'll thank the reporter for the effort they took and point them to the kubuntu beta ppa, which always contains the latest version we've released. End of "problem".
I know it's attractive to see problems everywhere and argue that the status quo is broken and needs to be replaced, but for me as an application developer the current model really works a lot better for me than what I have to do on Windows. Especially if you try to push your application through one of the app stores on Windows.
LWN's 2013 Predictions Posted Jan 8, 2013 13:21 UTC (Tue) by jpnp (subscriber, #63341) [Link] ...for some reason pretty much only with Ubuntu users in my experience. Maybe because they are in a huge majority.Or because Canonical provide updates for Ubuntu for a longer period, certainly compared to Fedora which has a userbase who must be much more up-to-date to receive security patches.
LWN's 2013 Predictions Posted Jan 8, 2013 13:50 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
That's possible as well -- but I'm quite sure that I have way more users on *buntu than on Fedora.
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