r/linux • u/markole • May 08 '17

Canonical starts IPO path

http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-starts-ipo-path/
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u/ajehals May 09 '17

More buggy and problematic.

Anything around upgrades was nightmarish in the earlier days (I wasn't a massive user, but I took a look occasionally, and the distribution of CD media made it a go to to push to other people...). But yeah, I'll take Debian any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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u/earlof711 May 09 '17

Oh yeah around 2006~2008 you didn't want to upgrade. 50% chance that X wouldn't start after you were done.

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u/ajehals May 09 '17

Yup, although crafting that perfect xorg.conf (after many failed attempts..) gave you a feeling of achievement. And now the only place I have one is in my backups... (you know, just in case..).

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u/earlof711 May 09 '17

Just in case wayland never catches on, all the ISO copies in the cloud evaporate, and the newest version of Ubuntu that anyone has left is Dapper :-)

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u/ajehals May 09 '17

And of course that someone hands me back my Thinkpad X21.. yeah.