Tuesday, August 29th 2006
Ubuntu apologizes for it's faulty patch.
A patch released on August 21 did more harm then good the day it was released. While it may have fixed some security problems, it completely eliminated the Graphical User Interface (GUI). After patching, several thousand users had to work in command line until installing an older patch. "As a team we made a series of errors, and the result was a desktop that was broken for thousands of users, for several hours. It has been a severe lesson in (quality assurance)," the founder of Ubuntu said in his blog. Ubuntu users are divided over how to react to this. Some users "don't think Linux is ready for prime-time yet... It's too much work for to little reward." Others feel that Ubuntu will not let such a problem happen again, and hating Ubuntu for this incident "is no different than someone falling off a chair and then blaming gravity for their misfortune." Ubuntu will try to prevent future issues from happening using several methods, including a possible future rollback tool. Detailed instructions on how to fix the problem can be found here.
Source:
Techworld
10 Comments on Ubuntu apologizes for it's faulty patch.
Windows sucks and everyone knows it but the open source community is too egotistic to get their act together and deliver a quality desktop O/S while they have a golden opportunity. And until there is a viable mainstream open source desktop O/S, commercial software makers won't bother writing similar application software for open source so people can easily migrate to open source. MICROSUCKS knows all of this and that is why it can peddle it's defective O/Ss and reap BILLIONS in profits annually.
edit: as for MS, they're alot worse. the best answer you can get from tech support for an ms operating system is to wipe it. i dont see that as being 'good'.
The big difference is that with Linux there is absolutely no real tech support. The best you have is a bunch of forums and you have to rely on other linux users to figure it out, you get the same thing with Windows also, there are tons of Windows forums on helping people with problems just like there are tons of Linux forums, however with Windows there is at least someone to hold accountable if it doesn't work right. To the normal user and the corporate user that is a requirement a lot of the time.