I use both 64-bit Intrepid and 64-bit Jaunty without any problems at all. Don't fall into the trap that because you are having problems everyone else is.
My opinion for what it is worth is that if you need something for business and crave stability that you should not have been running Intrepid in the first place. People who want stability should run the LTS releases only. In your case it should have been Hardy. The six month upgrade cycle is to keep the distro moving forward, but that does not mean that you need to be on the bleeding edge. You could try 64-bit Debian or one of its variants. They just released Lenny which is based on stable. I would suggest that MEPIS might be a good fit. It uses Debian, but supports a newer kernel and it still uses Synaptic. If you are going to move to RPM, try Mandriva. Fedora is like Ubuntu. It is more bleeding edge and package kit is just plain bad. Avoid Fedora if you crave stability. Likewise with openSUSE, IMO. Their method of resolving dependency problems leads novices into making poor decisions that result in instability. On 01/03/2009, Steve Brettell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. Redhat 10 got a good review in Linux Format. Any thought on that? > > > On 3/1/09, yyyc186 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> Given the rather sizeable and rampant problems with 64-bit Ibex, I'm >> forced to ask what distro the rest of you are moving to. There is no >> way I'm backing down to a 32-bit release, and I needed things which >> were in Ibex, but not Hardy. >> >> I really hate Yast, but might have to deal with SuSE again. I just >> can't risk my business and livelihood on something this unstable. If >> I wanted something to crash this often, I would run Vista. That last >> kernel update went out without much in the way of testing and I cannot >> keep rebooting 3-5 times per day, let alone not being able to print. >> > >> > > > -- > “Illusions are like mistresses. We can have many of them without tying > ourselves down to responsibility. But truth insists on marriage. Once > a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp.” > > - Rebazar Tarzs, Tibetan Lama > > > > -- Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and ... free! Support open Source <,*)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
