On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Vivek Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, February 27, 2010 10:29 pm, sudhir kumar wrote: >>> on nVidia. Not directly nVidia though, but in some of the older kernels the >>> nVidia driver got broken. I guess if you update it to the latest kernel and >>> get >> No. The latest kernel will never work with Nvidia. They do not expose > > I meant latest update to the kernel available thru the Ubuntu repositories > only, > of course not from kernel.org or ppa :-) > >>> every new update, the "Reliability" of Ubuntu is diminishing. Will have a >>> look >> But at the same time user interface is getting better and I feel that >> is a fair enough cost looking at the variety of HW available. I feel >> after few days of any release the system gets pretty stable. > > If in those few days the newer updates fix the bugs in older updates. I've > been > using Ubuntu since 4.10 days full time on all my systems and I've a first hand > experience on the frustration that seeps in when something that worked for > last > 6 months suddenly stopped working. Regardless, if the issues remain similar to > what I'm encountering now, then I think I can live with it - I like the effort > they put in making the user experience smoother, and that's the big draw.
Agree here. I have not used ubuntu for a long time continuously and keep changing my OS. I also ran in many problems but not sure if our shouting here is going to make any sense. May be a common bug can be opened in ubuntu forum which can give a set of examples of such past failures. If ubuntu community finds it worth, they can enhance their testing further before releases..... > > > Best Regards > Vivek Kapoor > http://exain.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Sudhir Kumar _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
