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I don't think that makes much sense (nor has the entire version number debate ever made sense). You'll get as much work as was completed in the 6 weeks window.

by gcp 15y ago

I don't think that makes much sense (nor has the entire version number debate ever made sense). You'll get as much work as was completed in the 6 weeks window. This might be a bunch of smaller changes. This might be some important stuff. It's just less clumped together because each version covers a fixed, smaller time period. A good comparison is Ubuntu. Is Ubuntu 12.04 a bigger increase than Ubuntu 11.10 was to 11.04? The major version number is bigger, after all.

bad_user 15y ago
Is Ubuntu 12.04 a bigger increase than Ubuntu 11.10 was to 11.04? On 11.10 I've had and still have problems with wifi, video, audio in, audio out, webcam and freezes on boot. Also the last time I felt a laptop so sluggish was when I was trying to work with Windows XP on a 486 DX 66Mhz, even though my laptop is a dual-core T4500 @ 2.30GHz with 4 GB of RAM. So considering how 11.10 completely fucked my laptop and nothing works properly anymore, spending countless of cycles going through every 11.10 bug report ever created and trying fixes in the hope that something works, I sure hope that 12.04 is an "increase", otherwise I swear to God that I'm switching to anything else I can get my hands on. And in the meantime I just have to live with "sudo reboot". IMHO 11.10 should have been called "Ubuntu Millennium", as that would have made more sense.
- freehunter 15y ago
  Linux tends to break hardware drivers occasionally as things get updated and they don't have open source drivers or hardware to test on. Especially when the OS is built from testing releases. Best thing to hope for on Ubuntu (and Mint) is partition /home by itself and run a clean install when you need to upgrade distros.
- mike-cardwell 15y ago
  Only upgrade to the latest version half way through a cycle. Ie, in January and July. That way, you can see all the problems that everyone else has had and make an informed decision on whether to upgrade. This month would be the time that I should be upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10. I'm not going to though because I've seen all the problems that other people have had with it. I'm hoping I can upgrade to 12.04 in July as I've heared they concentrating on reducing power usage, so hopefully it will make my laptop last longer. I could ugprade with everybody else in April, but then I'll be taking the same risks as everyone else. It's only a three month wait.
dredmorbius 15y ago
Ubuntu version numbers are strictly time-based. 12.04 is the April, 2012 release. 11.10 is the October, 2011 release. As with FF, the version number gives you no indication of the scope of change between releases. FF releases are planned "at 6-16 week intervals" according to Wikipedia. I'm not so much a fan of incrementing major with each rev, but it's just a number.
- gcp 15y ago
  Firefox releases every 6 weeks. Sounds strictly time-based to me. (Not clear where Wikipedia gets the 16 weeks from - the article they give as the source doesn't mention it at all)
  - dredmorbius 15y ago
    Thanks for the correction.
- bzbarsky 15y ago
  Firefox releases are strictly time-based. Schedule at https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

by gcp 15y ago

bad_user 15y ago

Is Ubuntu 12.04 a bigger increase than Ubuntu 11.10 was to 11.04? On 11.10 I've had and still have problems with wifi, video, audio in, audio out, webcam and freezes on boot. Also the last time I felt a laptop so sluggish was when I was trying to work with Windows XP on a 486 DX 66Mhz, even though my laptop is a dual-core T4500 @ 2.30GHz with 4 GB of RAM. So considering how 11.10 completely fucked my laptop and nothing works properly anymore, spending countless of cycles going through every 11.10 bug report ever created and trying fixes in the hope that something works, I sure hope that 12.04 is an "increase", otherwise I swear to God that I'm switching to anything else I can get my hands on. And in the meantime I just have to live with "sudo reboot". IMHO 11.10 should have been called "Ubuntu Millennium", as that would have made more sense.

freehunter 15y ago
Linux tends to break hardware drivers occasionally as things get updated and they don't have open source drivers or hardware to test on. Especially when the OS is built from testing releases. Best thing to hope for on Ubuntu (and Mint) is partition /home by itself and run a clean install when you need to upgrade distros.
mike-cardwell 15y ago
Only upgrade to the latest version half way through a cycle. Ie, in January and July. That way, you can see all the problems that everyone else has had and make an informed decision on whether to upgrade. This month would be the time that I should be upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10. I'm not going to though because I've seen all the problems that other people have had with it. I'm hoping I can upgrade to 12.04 in July as I've heared they concentrating on reducing power usage, so hopefully it will make my laptop last longer. I could ugprade with everybody else in April, but then I'll be taking the same risks as everyone else. It's only a three month wait.

dredmorbius 15y ago

Ubuntu version numbers are strictly time-based. 12.04 is the April, 2012 release. 11.10 is the October, 2011 release. As with FF, the version number gives you no indication of the scope of change between releases. FF releases are planned "at 6-16 week intervals" according to Wikipedia. I'm not so much a fan of incrementing major with each rev, but it's just a number.

gcp 15y ago
Firefox releases every 6 weeks. Sounds strictly time-based to me. (Not clear where Wikipedia gets the 16 weeks from - the article they give as the source doesn't mention it at all)
- dredmorbius 15y ago
  Thanks for the correction.
bzbarsky 15y ago
Firefox releases are strictly time-based. Schedule at https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar