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Story: Why is Windows 8 on SSD invisible to Ubuntu 12.10?s installer?Total Replies: 7
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tracyanne

Nov 06, 2012
5:25 PM EST 		;)
BernardSwiss

Nov 06, 2012
6:41 PM EST 		{snerk}
djohnston

Nov 06, 2012
8:16 PM EST 		It's a conspiracy, I tell ya! Mark has decided if he can't compete with Windows8, he'll just ignore it. 8 >)
gus3

Nov 07, 2012
11:40 AM EST 		That sounds like a conspiracy I'd enjoy being part of. Where do I sign up?
Steven_Rosenber

Nov 07, 2012
3:23 PM EST 		The story is that Ubuntu made so many changes to the installer so late in the cycle in order to cram all of the alternate-installer features into the live installer, it was inevitable that mistakes would be made.
caitlyn

Nov 07, 2012
4:13 PM EST 		If Ubuntu would stop being enslaved to a hard, can't be budged no matter what release date they will always have bugs that should never be in a final release.
BernardSwiss

Nov 07, 2012
7:27 PM EST 		The really weird part is that neither Microsoft nor (AFAIK) Apple are so inflexably rigid about release dates.

What is the point of it?
Steven_Rosenber

Nov 08, 2012
1:19 AM EST 		Ubuntu is really into counting down to release day.

OpenBSD has set release dates, they never miss, and stuff is never poorly baked. It's the development philosophy, project structure and project goals that make for quality.

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