Karmic chaos

So a company that routinely removes functionality from their operating system, to avoid confusing their poor, helpless users with too many checkboxes and features, ships a release with broken DNS resolving?

I think, from an end-user point-of-view, “not breaking the internet” should be a lot higher up in the scale than helping out people that “don’t get files and folders”.

Or does Canonical hope that the same people that zapped themselves with ALT+CTRL+Backspace, failed to install important security updates (without an obnoxious prompt popping up every other day to remind them) and would be confused if the Firefox-3.5 package replaced the Firefox-3.0 package, will be comfortable and technically capable of manually editing their grub config to turn off IPv6. Assuming they can even get as far as to identify the problem. Or do they assume that the majority of Ubuntu users will be in the minority of people with routers that don’t splutter and die when they receive an IPv6 request?

Rant over. And in fact, I think this issue has helped me identify a problem that I was having with OpenSolaris, go figure :-)


This entry was posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 12:27 am and is filed under rant, ubuntu.

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