I think the most stable one with me was 8.04, the sound drivers even allowed me to play music on my laptop in a surround mode using external speakers and the laptop speakers at the same time, which is something i didn't find in the rest later, anyway ubuntu still was teh best,, i have tried suse once, and I moved to mandriva 4 months ago and i thought at first it's great, then the RPM problems always kept coming up and other stuff related to the kernel, which made me switch back to ubuntu as fast as i could.. the only thing in ubuntu that makes its developers remove a good feature or replace it with an unstable one is that they're either improving it or they're testing hte new one with users... ubuntu has the largest repositories, biggest communities, faster development and I just love it..
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:29 PM, linuxonbute <[email protected]>wrote: > > Well I think that answers it. > As far as I know Ubuntu full ( i.e. stable ) releases are > .04 and .10 > > the .04 releases come out in April and are long term releases. > the .10 releases come out in October. > > So it seems you are trying to use an unstable release > Unless of course you mean 9.10 but then that will not be available > until October :<( > > > On 1 Apr, 17:05, yyyc186 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was running 64-bit 9.01. A 32-bit OS is absolutely useless to me. > > It sounds to me like you turn off (or ignore) the automatic updates. > > That would explain how you are able to be happy. Cannonical has a > > history of releasing updates which are no where near ready for prime > > time. I don't download OS versions. I purchase DVD versions from on- > > disk. They have always been a reliable source. Since one of my > > connections is a satellite with a 300MEG/day limit, downloading an OS > > isn't an option. > > > > I also run KDE because Gnome is from a time when programmers lived in > > caves, ate their young, and fouled their own nest. KDE is a much more > > mature front end. If you need to add a font for a document it is a > > menu option. Until recently to add a font in Gnome you had to copy a > > file here, hack a file there, then find a cryptic command line to > > execute so the font would work. > > > > Picture a 5 gallon pail sitting on a sidewalk surrounded by grass. > > Cannonical pours water from a one gallon pail into the 5 gallon pail. > > The water in the 5 gallon pail is the amount of resources they put > > into the 32-bit Gnome release. Water which is blown by the wind onto > > the sidewalk is the amount of resources they put into KDE. Any water > > which manages to somehow find its way into the grass is the amount of > > resources they put into the 64-bit edition. > > > > I'm guessing you only run the 32-bit Gnome version and you never apply > > the automatic updates. I need to be able to address 8Gig of RAM > > because OpenOffice and other applications don't work when parts of > > them are in the swap file...at least on Ubuntu. In theory I could get > > by with only 6Gig, but why risk it when you can get a pair of 2Gig > > modules shipped to your door for under $50. > > > > On Apr 1, 10:07 am, smr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Despite my gut instinct of "obvious troll is obvious" this is fair > > > enough, it sounds like you're either running counterfeit Ubuntu ("you > > > wouldn't steal a car") or a very different edition to me. It's very > > > possible to run an edition of Ubuntu which is so bleeding edge it's > > > still having the kinks worked out and I reckon that's what you've > > > stumbled upon. I'm in the suspend your laptop at the end of the day > > > and open the lid the next and continue until you install the next > > > edition group and that really does work for me. I'm aware that I > > > really can't do anything productive to an operating system that's > > > still in testing, that's just not my area of expertise, but I do know > > > that if I stick to the regular, supported kind of Ubuntu release I can > > > keep it working for about 6 months at a time and that's just because I > > > update my distribution given half a chance. > > > > > On 30 Mar, 20:30, yyyc186 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I have completed my migration to SuSE and pretty much advise all > > > > others to try it. Cannonical simply had too unstable of a release > and > > > > a complete lack of control when it came to cranking out patches. > > > > Those last few rounds of kernel updates were the final straw. > > > > > > Gone are the days of 3-5 lockups/crashes per day. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
