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Nice. I hope it gets the google love it deserves. Googling for ubuntu-specific problems can become quite painful since forum threads are often full of outdated

by jessor 16y ago

Nice. I hope it gets the google love it deserves. Googling for ubuntu-specific problems can become quite painful since forum threads are often full of outdated or useless statements. Q&A Sites seem to be the answer of the problems that forums and wikis suffer from.

leftnode 16y ago
Yeah, nothings more infuriating than trying to find an answer and you get a blog post about Feisty Fawn.
- parfe 16y ago
  Your comment excited me because I thought questions would be tagged by Ubuntu release, but that does not seem to be the case. edit: Looks like the release tag is available but optional which saddens me.
  - badmash69 16y ago
    It would be great if they gave points for tagging answers with the pertinent releases.
  - phsr 16y ago
    It should be optional, because there will be questions the span a few releases, and the number of tags on a question is limited to 5.
    - allenp 16y ago
      Or they should make the version tags a separate set of tags - they are really different information than the content of the rest of the tags. Edit: Re-thinking this - maybe version should be mandatory, but again not count against the tag limit, with the ability to add other versions to the question if applicable to future releases.
      - SkyMarshal 16y ago
        Or just provide a 'non-version specific' tag in addition to the version ones.
- clutchski 16y ago
  Yeah, I always end up searching "my random problem karmic".
- loewenskind 16y ago
  This kind of thing is always frustrating but personally I nearly always use the time constraint on my Google searches. This usually fixes the problem.
- calloc 16y ago
  Feisty Fawn is how old? I can never remember the names of the releases. Why can't they just stick to the numbering scheme?
  - 83457 16y ago
    Naming is in sequence alphabetically and there is a release every 6 months. Maverick Meerkat was released recently. A B C D E F G H I J K L M... so that means... (13-6 releases) * (6 months/1 release) * (1 year/12 months) = 3.5 years
    - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
      Except that there was no A, B, or C release in the current lineup, because it started with Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger, and then they decided on the sequentially named releases starting with Dapper Drake (6.06). Feisty Fawn was 7.04.
      - 83457 16y ago
        Good point. I put that in more to represent releases between F and M but I see why that was confusing.
  - loire280 16y ago
    The official release name is Ubuntu Y.MM (10.10 just came out, replacing 10.4 released in April). The... err... fanciful names are development codenames. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
avar 16y ago
Not only that, but they archive their forums after a while. So even if the info was partially useful you can't reply with updated information, since they've put in the artificial restriction that you can't reply to threads from say 2008.

by jessor 16y ago

leftnode 16y ago

Yeah, nothings more infuriating than trying to find an answer and you get a blog post about Feisty Fawn.

parfe 16y ago
Your comment excited me because I thought questions would be tagged by Ubuntu release, but that does not seem to be the case. edit: Looks like the release tag is available but optional which saddens me.
- badmash69 16y ago
  It would be great if they gave points for tagging answers with the pertinent releases.
- phsr 16y ago
  It should be optional, because there will be questions the span a few releases, and the number of tags on a question is limited to 5.
  - allenp 16y ago
    Or they should make the version tags a separate set of tags - they are really different information than the content of the rest of the tags. Edit: Re-thinking this - maybe version should be mandatory, but again not count against the tag limit, with the ability to add other versions to the question if applicable to future releases.
    - SkyMarshal 16y ago
      Or just provide a 'non-version specific' tag in addition to the version ones.
clutchski 16y ago
Yeah, I always end up searching "my random problem karmic".
loewenskind 16y ago
This kind of thing is always frustrating but personally I nearly always use the time constraint on my Google searches. This usually fixes the problem.
calloc 16y ago
Feisty Fawn is how old? I can never remember the names of the releases. Why can't they just stick to the numbering scheme?
- 83457 16y ago
  Naming is in sequence alphabetically and there is a release every 6 months. Maverick Meerkat was released recently. A B C D E F G H I J K L M... so that means... (13-6 releases) * (6 months/1 release) * (1 year/12 months) = 3.5 years
  - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
    Except that there was no A, B, or C release in the current lineup, because it started with Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger, and then they decided on the sequentially named releases starting with Dapper Drake (6.06). Feisty Fawn was 7.04.
    - 83457 16y ago
      Good point. I put that in more to represent releases between F and M but I see why that was confusing.
- loire280 16y ago
  The official release name is Ubuntu Y.MM (10.10 just came out, replacing 10.4 released in April). The... err... fanciful names are development codenames. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

avar 16y ago

Not only that, but they archive their forums after a while. So even if the info was partially useful you can't reply with updated information, since they've put in the artificial restriction that you can't reply to threads from say 2008.