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"Stephan Rose" <nospam@spammer.com> wrote in message
news:lZmdnfvHjvqfbgrbnZ2dnUVZ8vidnZ2d@giganews.com...
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:55:17 -0700, Alpha wrote:
>
>> On Jul 13, 8:57 am, Alias <a...@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote:
>>> Mike wrote:
>>> > In article <lZmdncHHjvqqAQrbnZ2dnUVZ8vidn...@giganews.com>,
>>> > Stephan Rose <nos...@spammer.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Here is the release policy:
>>>
>>> >> LTS Releases are supported for 3 years (5 years server). All other
>>> >> releases
>>> >> have 1 year support. When the current LTS expires, a new release is
>>> >> made
>>> >> available with LTS support.
>>>
>>> >> What's so terribly difficult to understand about this?
>>>
>>> > Nothing actually. What it means is Ubuntu is not something to run a
>>> > business on. 3 years?!?! 1 year?!?! Wow, and people complain
>>> > about the "MS upgrade treadmill"! MS is still supporting Windows
>>> > 2000
>>> > after 8 years and XP after 6 years.
>>>
>>> > No business wants OS upgrades forced on them every 3 years in order to
>>> > stay supported. If MS did that you would be screaming "monopoly"!
>>>
>>> > Mike
>>>
>>> Ubuntu upgrades are totally painless. If you're a business, you back up
>>> your data. Installing a new version of Ubuntu is a nice walk in the park
>>> compared to Windows which could be likened to taking a walk in South
>>> Central LA at 3AM on a Sunday morning.
>>>
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>>
>> Except that, on 10 PCs, it has FAILED to install every time.
>
> Well if the LiveCD booted and you made it to the graphical installer then
> honestly, you as a user, were doing something wrong if you failed to
> install it.

It did not get this far.


I don't mean this in a bad way so please don't take offense.
> Not my intention. Just my honest observation because if a LiveCD boots
> then you already know that the OS will work on the hardware. Unlike the
> windows installers, the LiveCD actually really run the OS just like it
> would run off the hard drive. So to "install" itself, the only thing it
> has left to do is copy its files to a partition you designate to install
> it to and update / add the boot manager as necessary.
>
> If the LiveCD does not boot, then there indeed is an issue with the OS
> itself and there is some hardware compatibility problem.
>

My point exactly!!! So how is this so great??????


>
> I've successfully installed it on everything ranging on today's latest
> hardware to a several year old laptop with under 256mb ram and some weird
> proprietary and non-standard LCD hardware.
>
> The only install I've ever had a problem with was that laptop install as
> not only is it just barely at spec, but it also has really oddball display
> hardware. Not an install I'd recommend for a beginner.
>
> All my other installs though quite honestly went perfectly smoothly, both
> on desktops and newer laptops.
>
> I'm not saying there can't be install issues. There can be. But they are
> generally unlikely if the LiveCD boots successfully, and they are even
> less likely to occur on 10 different machines. Just statistically
> speaking, at least one should work.
>
> --
> Stephan
> 2003 Yamaha R6
>
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