Common problems with Ubuntu

[Elazar Leibovich]

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.
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.
Why is that? Why does the brand name matters? Why won't we look at the fact
sheet of each car model?
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.
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.
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.
Geof's answer is *exactly* what I had in mind when asking the question.
An example problem which according to Geof is specific to the Ubuntu *brand* 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.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Aviram Jenik <aviram at jenik.com> wrote:

> On Monday 10 May 2010 07:05:03 Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> > I remeber a few times where users of this mailing list were arguing that
> > ubuntu is a very problematic distribution.
> > I'm evaluating a distribution for developer desktop.
> > Ubuntu seems fitting mainly due to the hardware detection and the ease of
> > configuration. Also, it has up to date versions of many desktop packages.
> > I'll be happy to know which problems did you have with the Ubuntu
> > distribution.
> > Googling with Ubuntu problems etc, did not help me find any
> > *informative*list of problems.
> >
>
> I once had a white Ford Fiesta that was giving me engine trouble. Can
> someone
> send me an *informative* list of problems in Ford cars (preferably white)
> and
> how they solved it?
>
> That's pretty much what you wrote.
>
> Every Ubuntu release has a wiki page with known issues. Ubuntu has a bug
> tracking system that you can also use to see what problems currently exist
> and are open - *for your hardware*. If you want an informative list, that's
> the one. Everything else is personal experience from a tiny sample size
> that
> might be completely different from your own use case.
>
> To get some meaningful response, it would help if you specify your hardware
> (or should we guess?) what version of Ubuntu you were trying, what kind of
> problems you were having and most importantly, what is your alternative to
> Ubuntu.
>
> > (Obviously, this is *not *ment to be a discussion (or even worse, a flame
> > war) about which distribution is better, but a listing of common problems
> > typical to Ubuntu, and how are they solved with other distributions)
>
> Ubuntu has been around for almost 6 years. I doubt there is something
> like "problems typical to Ubuntu".
>
> - Aviram
>
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