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Explaining the Ubuntu release schedule

I met someone on IRC who had a difficult time understanding Ubuntu’s release style, so I came up with the following:

[jacob] Windows beta releases come in chunks
[jacob] consider that like going down a river on a tour boat that stops at sites for a few days, then keeps going to stop some more. each stop is a beta, and eventually they will arrive at the destination.
[jacob] Ubuntu’s release scheme is like white water rafting
[jacob] you can jump in at any time, and you will constantly get hit with updates
[jacob] eventually you will end up at the end; there are no “stopping points” per say, just landmarks that represent betas

Yes, I’m weird. But hey, it worked.

2 Responses

  1. Mackenzie said on 20 Apr 2008 at 9:44 am

    Cute

  2. Edward A Robinson said on 20 Apr 2008 at 10:04 am

    I like it

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