Common problems with Ubuntu

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

This seems to me like issue with the video card. Probably firmware.

Ez

2010/5/11 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>

> Hi Elazar,
>
> Another problem I have been experiencing for the past 3 major Ubuntu
> distributions (8.*, 9.*, 10.04, 64 bit OS on a 64 bit dual core) is that the
> X becomes extremely slow after a major operation (such as running
> heavy-memory Matlab scripts, or even an ad with sound on walla's weather
> page). It gives me the feeling that even once the application is long gone,
> the memory is still not really freed.
>
> I tried using google-chrome instead of firefox (which causes this problem
> itself sometimes), but it did not help.
>
> Even logging out does not solve the issue, not even ordering a reboot - I
> have to shut down and restart manually when this happens. I can no longer
> proudly claim that "Reboot is only due to electricity outages", and I now
> consider going back to Debian, in which I do not recall such problems.
>
> Orna.
>
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:46 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 10, 2010, at 5:05 PM, 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> You need to go to the UBUNTU site and look at their problem databases.
>> They are very good at tracking problems, less good at fixing them.
>>
>> The problems I think you will encounter are:
>>
>> 1.      They have a very strict release cycle with deadlines. Problems
>> found after the "freeze" date for a distribution are not fixed until after
>> the distribution.
>>        This meant in 9.04 IDE optical drives did not work, ATOM processors
>> did not boot and a lot of minor bugs.
>>
>>        The ATOM problem was fixed with the netbook respin, but AFAIK a new
>> boot disk of the regular version was never released.
>>
>> 2.      They take about a month after a release to to fix things and then
>> often break them. For example, I have a system where gnome stopped working,
>> and I have tried reinstalling gnome, deleting prefs, etc and it still does
>> not work. It's too involved to reinstall from scratch.
>>
>> 3,      They moved things around and are not like any UNIX or Linux based
>> distro. While it's debian based, they forked off a long time ago, and debian
>> packages often won't work, nor will any of the administration things you
>> know.
>>
>> 4.      They set things up the way they want them and it's darned near
>> impossible to make them work properly if it is not what they wanted. Ask
>> anyone with a Mac running MacOS 10.5 or 10.6 who wanted to use netatalk.
>>
>> 5.      Long term support is a relative term. Fixes that you would think
>> are applied are not carried back. Only the obvious critical ones.
>>
>> 6.      Packages are not updated. Many of them are never updated, some are
>> updated daily. I'm still faced with the same bugs in the UBUNTU version of
>> Asterisk that were there since the original one that came with the release.
>>
>> In short a great desktop system for simple users, not a good one for
>> someone to maintain or do anything beyond it.
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
>> --
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>> Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendelson at gmail.com
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>> understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
>> i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
>>
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