On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Lisa Kachold<lisakach...@obnosis.com> wrote: > What a load of horse puckey! > > Silly, silly, silly, silly!
Well...not entirely. He uses Network Manager and it's WiFi setup as one example. And I'm afraid he's right, or at least he was. Network Manager 7.x series as used in Ubuntu Intrepid and Jaunty was a mess. Debian refused to go there even in Sid and with good reason. The "release candidate 8" code found in Karmic is much more solid. We've also had a period of time lately when the "GUI stack" was in flux. Jaunty shipped with badly screwed up Intel drivers for example - it got about half of the upstream kernel/xorg/mesa/Intel parts it needed and a VERY good case can be made that it should have been delayed. Karmic is yet again going to sort all that out. HOWEVER, if you don't need the latest and greatest bleeding edge stuff, it's always been possible to set up a stable system. In the Ubuntu family, you went with Hardy. And that's what he's missing: if you know what to look for, there are always stable options out there, either Debian or Centos or Ubuntu LTS. The issues he does cite are pretty rapidly getting sorted out in the "edgier" areas. Jim --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
