Comment 71 for bug 431812

Vielen Dank jochen. Just a point of clarification. You say that 9.10 is an alpha release for the next LTS, so we should expect critical bugs. If that's the case, this is something that is not being communicated to users. When you go to the Canonical site there is no indication that 9.10 would be less stable or functional. It isn't labeled "dev" or "alpha" or even "beta." It's provided as the primary version to download for ordinary production environments. The LTS release is explained as one which will receive support for a longer period of time, not one which is more "finished." Granted, an LTS release will have more time to get all of the bugs fixed. But if the "regular" releases like 9.10 are supposed to be prone to "many critical bugs," this isn't being communicated properly to the people we want to adopt the os. To be clear, I'm not just trying to be critical here. I'm concerned that if this had been my first attempt with Ubuntu it would have driven me back to Windows.