Emulating 8.2-767

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

The excellent folk who are doing the Ubuntu work often post to this list,
and can speak for themselves, but here is what Morgan Collett replied when I
asked:

... many "core" activities don't work. Read and
> Write both depend on things we couldn't get packaged in Ubuntu in the
> right time frame - we hope to solve that for Jaunty. Browse has been
> affected by a dependency on hulahop when gets broken with every
> Firefox update - we're working on getting that fixed, but the process
> has been rather frustrating the first time around. As our team gets
> more experienced and (hopefully) more upload rights for Ubuntu
> packaging, we should be able to fix things faster.
>

So my conclusion, despite the fact that some of these issues are addressed
in test packages suitable for knowledgeable folk, is that ordinary
non-developers (and that includes people providing environments for others
that must work as flawlessly as possible) should wait for Jaunty.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It may be feasible to do this on Fedora, but it is not yet feasible on
> > Ubuntu.  Sugar doesn't do anything interesting there because the
> networking
> > is broken.  (They are working on it and the problem might be solved in a
> > test version, but it isn't feasible for someone who just wants to use
> > standard means for installing packages to obtain and try out Sugar.)
>
> From the networking perspective ubuntu 8.10 comes with a release of NM
> 0.7 so it should work when sugar works with NM 0.7 (I thought there
> were patches floating around to make sugar 0.82 work with NM 0.7)
>
> Peter
>



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