On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:19:14PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:

> Amen, brother. I've been playing with Gutsy (7.10) for a while now 

Ah, the same mistake I made. Let's hope LTS will iron these out.
It's almost certainly the accelerated proprietary nvidia graphics 
drivers in my case.

> and am dealing with unpredictable crashes - which are getting more 
> and more annoying.

I'm spending more time in XP, especially since I use Second Life more
heavily. Both voice and 6DOF (SpaceNavigator) in flycam don't work
in the Linux client yet.
 
> To be fair, I am promiscuously installing any app I can find, on the 
> theory that I will reinstall the OS from scratch at least once more 

I'm getting tired of reinstalls. I'll upgrade to LTS, and that will
be it for that particular machine.

> before I go the whole hog with 8.04. But still, annoying.
> 
> Let's see whow it goes...

...it goes to illustrate that the era of excitement in IT is over.

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