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[Sam Azer <626974@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

It's always good to help improve communication, understanding and
cooperation - anytime and anywhere...

FWIW, I see many people dropping Windows (even though it's a very solid
OS these days,) and moving to MACs and PCs running Ubuntu. In fact
Ubuntu is now a mainstream operating system and, after years of major
re-writing, Kubuntu is rapidly getting there too! You may have noticed
news article after article from corporations and governments, going back
as far as  10 years, announcing that they are supporting Ubuntu and,
more recently, installing it by default on new PCs.

It's a good idea to review, though, why some people are having trouble
and others, like me, are tickled pink:

There's an obvious scheduling problem with so many distros and projects
being so disconnected from the manufacturers. The manufacturers would
surely like to be able to provide the proper support and the distros
would like to be able to work more closely with the manufacturers and
the programmers involved in the various projects - but the business
process is evolving with many problems remaining to be solved.

Canonical is making progress in this area and I think you'll find that
all interested project leaders are paying attention - so we are marching
forward on the learning curve and things are getting better in general.
Also the cost of entry for new projects is going up - which will reduce
the number of new projects and improve the quality of the successful
projects as time goes on.

For now, though, people with production servers and workstations need to
be more patient about major upgrades.

In my case I upgraded a few systems on the basis of the excellent work
that I was seeing in the previous beta releases - but then I found that
there are some serious instabilities in 10.10 (mysterious crashes that
bring down everything including the kernel.) This is normal for a new
release and I knew it - so I will try next time to wait a bit before
upgrading my production environments. On the other hand it's hard for me
to be patient because I want so much to make use of all the excellent
product that is in the upgrades!

(My thanks and congratulations again to the many wonderful people who
make all this good stuff possible!)

I hope that more people will take the time to review and discuss (and
hopefully explain) what's going on in more detail as time permits. More
discussion will Improve the level of knowledge and understanding which
will help more people to properly benefit and enjoy all this great work
that's being done.

Have a great day,
Take care,
Sam.

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