A funny thing happend to me tonight.

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 
> Please report that bug, Geoff:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect

It's already been reported. That's how I found out that it existed. I 
don't think I can document it with any useful information except that it 
worked on Wednesday and was dead on Saturday. Since I no longer have 
that system, I restored to a Friday backup, I can't look for anything.

> I don't see how it is relevant. I didn't ask anyone to sell me a
> computer running Linux that will never have any userspace software
> issues. I asked a company which sells computer components which
> motherboard has components that are currently compatible with
> commonly-available Linux distros.
> 

It's relevant IMHO because it goes against conventional wisdom. If you 
tried a live CD, if you did an install on one system, if you looked at 
the Hardware Compatibility Lists, if you just looked up the driver 
status of every bit of hardware on the computer, if you had rolled 
twelve sided dice and accepted anything above 7 on each of them, it 
would have been ok, but failed miserably if you installed them this morning.

I'm not even sure it is a userspace issue. Before I gave up and went 
back to my working backup, I tried KDE. I got effectively the same 
results. I may of had something misconfigured at that point, but I can't 
tell anymore.

I'm not trying to make this a personal attack, and apologize if you were 
or are offended in any way. I seriously do not think it is possible for 
a computer vendor, even the size of Ivory, to warrant that a computer 
you buy will run Linux.

Ironicaly, I did buy the laptop in question from Ivory, almost 4 years 
ago to the day. In that time it has run Linux, Windows, BSD, occasionaly 
all at the same time.  Although I have had to live with lots of 
"features" of UBUNTU, until last night it never failed to run.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379
"Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play
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(sent to me by a friend)