[Klug-general] Java problems on upgrade

[George Prowse]

danattwood wrote:
> Mike Rentell wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the interest and support Stuart. But I finally lost patience 
>> with it when it failed to find my CDs. It will find system DVDs but when 
>> I put a music CD in the slot it simply ignored it.
>>
>> I re-installed Mandriva 2008 (32 bit) yesterday afternoon, updated 
>> on-line this morning and am back to square one with everything working 
>> faultlessly.
>>
>> I think I will let Mandriva work on their 64-bit offering for another 
>> couple of years before trying it again.
>>
>> It's broke.
>>
>> But thanks for trying to help.
>>
>> MikeR
>>
>> Stuart Brand wrote:
>>   
>>     
> I think it's probably unfair to say that it's broke - however like all 
> 64 bit linux distros I've tried it's probably  much better suited to be 
> a server at the moment rather then a desktop machine. I've recently gone 
> back to 32bit ubuntu on my desktop as I got fed up have to try to make 
> things work - with 32bit it's not a problem.
>   
Maybe 5 years ago but i've been using 64bit gentoo for 4 years without a 
problem. Also, apart from things like flash there has never been any 
64bit problems. Sometimes you just need to have the time to fix these 
things and to make a bug report. I also find it impossible to believe 
that Mandrake hasn't had a perfectly running 64bit offering for at least 
3 years.