Comment 10 for bug 272637

2008/10/11 Rachel Greenham <email address hidden>:
> I've gone back to hardy fulltime too. I don't mind (even quite enjoy)
> the flakiness of a new distro version as long as there are signs of
> forward progress. It's kinda fun to try out the new builds and report
> bugs on them... But no, there aren't many such signs. No new versions of
> any netbook remix component since I installed intrepid; netbook theme
> still isn't even in the repos; netbook-launcher remains unusable in any
> released intrepid build, too unusable for me to even care about the
> minor issues with things like what the quit button does, when it can't
> even show the "Quit" next to it. Frustrating. :-(

All the netbook remix components are at the same beginning stage. They
were synced once at the beginning and that's been it.

They are concentrating 100% on the OEM market rather than thinking
about users installing this stuff on their netbooks themselves.OEMs
will probably ship with the last LTS (ie Hardy).

The way Ubuntu stuff is supposed to work is that we work up to a
release, and then everything done post release is essential bug
fixing. The netbook remix team seem to be waiting until after release
to actually start work.

The quit button issue was a bug across the board with intrepid. It's
now been fixed but we don't get the fix, *and* the netbook remix devs
probably don't know about either the fix nor the problem.

The real problem is that there doesn't seem to be much way of the
community getting involved as it is being done in closed PPAs by
Canonical staff. To get a working netbook friendly install in
Intrepid we'd have to either fork their work or start again from
scratch.

I'm guessing something like eeeUbuntu is a better solution.