<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Justin Dugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jldugger@gmail.com">jldugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> So /after/ ITEC then? :-(<br>
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</div>The Ubuntu schedule is published well in advance, and currently slated<br>
for the 31st. Sorry if that conflicts with your trade show. You<br>
could hand out betas if you really wanted to. But it's not like<br>
you'll see anyone else handing out Free software, brand new or six<br>
months old.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>We never want to hand out Ubuntu *.10 at ITEC, precisely because it's a new release that will have bugs that couldn't be caught in beta, due to the lack of any beta-testers with the exact combinations of hardware and software that triggers those bugs. When we give CDs to people, I like to give a mature release that's already had six months of bug fixes. That way their first exposure to Linux won't be full of FAIL.<br>
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