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Sure, there are some issues with it - I think a 6 month release cycle is difficult. I tend to wait a few weeks before grabbing Ubuntu updates for that reason.

But Ted's attitude is lame - open source software doesn't really need poisonous people like that.

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Yep, Ted is a bad writer with very few points to make, so he fills in the gaps with anger and poison. Some people can pull off the angry rant in a a worthwhile way. He can't, and I generally despise his writing.

As far as Ubuntu's update process, these updates were small point updates in the middle of the release cycle, which is why they were so disturbing; it seems that Debian's "constantly up-to-date" system works better for me, at least so far.

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