<div dir="ltr">Actually I once have had an Ubuntu at home and it did not give me any trouble. I'm looking for a distribution for my workplace to 4 developers seats with minimal maintainance needs. After we'll install a distribution we're unlikely to change it, so I prefer to ask around for some general impressions.<div>
Your example about cars is an excellent example for what I'm seeking. For example, it is a "common knowledge" (although I'm not sure it is really true), that Japanese cars are very reliable. While French cars has expensive parts, thus has a big maintainance fee.</div>
<div>Why is that? Why does the brand name matters? Why won't we look at the fact sheet of each car model?</div><div>The reason is, that the engineers at a certain company, are likely to have a certain engineering attitude, and thus many models are likely to suffer from similar faults.</div>
<div>For example, Microsoft is now known for excellent security review practices. Whichever MS software I choose, I can rest assured that it will be relatively on the high end of security.</div><div>Moreover, some people in this list wrote things like "stay away from Ubuntu", "anything but Ubuntu", so I wanted to know what exactly were the problems they've had.</div>
<div>Geof's answer is <b>exactly</b> what I had in mind when asking the question.</div><div>An example problem which according to Geof is specific to the Ubuntu <b>brand</b> is lack of fixes to a certain bugs even after a long time. That's the brand, not the specific issue. I can't tell that from reading a long list of specific problems with a certain version.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Aviram Jenik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aviram@jenik.com">aviram@jenik.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Monday 10 May 2010 07:05:03 Elazar Leibovich wrote:<br>
> I remeber a few times where users of this mailing list were arguing that<br>
> ubuntu is a very problematic distribution.<br>
> I'm evaluating a distribution for developer desktop.<br>
> Ubuntu seems fitting mainly due to the hardware detection and the ease of<br>
> configuration. Also, it has up to date versions of many desktop packages.<br>
> I'll be happy to know which problems did you have with the Ubuntu<br>
> distribution.<br>
> Googling with Ubuntu problems etc, did not help me find any<br>
> *informative*list of problems.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I once had a white Ford Fiesta that was giving me engine trouble. Can someone<br>
send me an *informative* list of problems in Ford cars (preferably white) and<br>
how they solved it?<br>
<br>
That's pretty much what you wrote.<br>
<br>
Every Ubuntu release has a wiki page with known issues. Ubuntu has a bug<br>
tracking system that you can also use to see what problems currently exist<br>
and are open - *for your hardware*. If you want an informative list, that's<br>
the one. Everything else is personal experience from a tiny sample size that<br>
might be completely different from your own use case.<br>
<br>
To get some meaningful response, it would help if you specify your hardware<br>
(or should we guess?) what version of Ubuntu you were trying, what kind of<br>
problems you were having and most importantly, what is your alternative to<br>
Ubuntu.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> (Obviously, this is *not *ment to be a discussion (or even worse, a flame<br>
> war) about which distribution is better, but a listing of common problems<br>
> typical to Ubuntu, and how are they solved with other distributions)<br>
<br>
</div>Ubuntu has been around for almost 6 years. I doubt there is something<br>
like "problems typical to Ubuntu".<br>
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- Aviram<br>
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