On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Justin Dugger <jldugger@gmail.com> wrote:

> So /after/ ITEC then? :-(

The Ubuntu schedule is published well in advance, and currently slated
for the 31st. Sorry if that conflicts with your trade show. You
could hand out betas if you really wanted to. But it's not like
you'll see anyone else handing out Free software, brand new or six
months old.

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.