ubuntu is starting to annoy me

[Boaz Rymland]

geoffrey mendelson wrote:

> After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde 
> world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing 
> Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones 
> running other operating systems don't.
I had a similar issue that was resolved when I switched to a PCI 
ethernet adapter with different chipset.
In my case it seemed as if the network "total loss" was related to long 
periods of idle time - overnight and such. I suspected that whatever 
power management or other idle-time related mechanism wasn't functioning 
ok. Replacing the NIC resolved it.

Ubuntu is not perfect.
I hope the descriptions here are not a sign of a major issue with this 
release.
To the good or worse, its (arguably) one of the best Linux distros out 
there and most likely the first recommended by many to be your grandma's 
Windows replacement.
I also get irritated by it at times, but I also got irritated by Gentoo 
(eventually it took me took much time to simply maintain it) and you can 
find similar problems in any distro - even if you a true Linux zealot :-)

Boaz.