Stephan Rose

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:48:28 -0700, Telstar wrote:

> "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??????
>

Well if that is what was happening, then it obviously wasn't very great
for you. I wouldn't disagree there.

As to why it was failing, there isn't much I can say without more
information.

I do know that there was an issue with the 6.06 (Edgy) LiveCD not booting
with certain newer nVidia cards. Well, it was booting, but the driver it
picked didn't correctly support the newer cards yet so you'd end up with a
blank screen.

This has since been fixed in 7.04 but it nonetheless was an issue at that
time.

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Stephan
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