RE: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Elzer
enix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jason Spatafore Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:41 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Linux losing stability? On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:38 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > On the other hand, I tend to agree with mo

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-05 Thread Jason Spatafore
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:38 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > On the other hand, I tend to agree with most of what he says taken > literally. IOW, it is NOT Linux that lacks stability (I think the > title was intended to provoke). And while it would be ideal if the > ever changing AND improving desktop ex

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-04 Thread Stephen
The article does not even talk about the 3 (ill call it core) types of Linux. Bleeding edge, Stable and Server. most of the issues he talks about are nowhere near a server release of linux or any of the stable branches of distros. and i as a somewhat masochistic geek have no issue with enabling exp

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Jim March
> And some of the issues that are cited have no bearing on other distros. Yes and no... > *The non-buntu distros did not suffer from the Intel-hell that Ubuntu 9.04 > shipped with. (you cited that, not the OP, but still) No, this wasn't purely an Ubuntu issue. Jaunty had about half the graphica

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Dazed_75
Actually I think the author achieved EXACTLY what he intended and it was CERTAINLY what I intended when I posted the link here. That is to say a lively discussion where people really think about what they say before they type it (well, most of you anyway :=) On the other hand, I tend to agree wit

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Ryan Rix
Jim March wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Lisa Kachold > 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.

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Jim March
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Lisa Kachold 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 Intrepi

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Eric Shubert
Dazed_75 wrote: > A very interesting train of thought at > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-losing-its-stable-title-33866 > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain > occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Th

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Lisa Kachold
What a load of horse puckey! Silly, silly, silly, silly! On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > A very interesting train of thought at > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-losing-its-stable-title-33866 > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread huertanix
I haven't noticed a loss in stability in any of my Debian-stable systems. Sent from my BlackBerry Slowphone provided by Allfail -Original Message- From: Technomage Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:02:14 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Linux losing stability? Dazed_75 wrote

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Technomage
Dazed_75 wrote: > A very interesting train of thought at > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-losing-its-stable-title-33866 > > Interesting in that I pointed out some of the very problems as detailed in this article over the last several weeks. Frankly, I've been noticing that linux (

Re: Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Stephen
it is interesting. although somewhat misnamed... as the Os is not loosing stability but various distributions based on what they are expecting to do... On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > A very interesting train of thought at > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-losing-it

Linux losing stability?

2009-09-03 Thread Dazed_75
A very interesting train of thought at http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-losing-its-stable-title-33866 -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson -