[sclug] sclug Digest, Vol 73, Issue 3

[Neil Haughton]

 I suggest you regress to 7.10. If

> you had no problems with it, then there isn't any need to upgrade.
> Unless you are desperate for a certain package, it should be perfectly
> fine and secure. However, before you do that, conciser trying a LTS
> release, namely 8.04. This will be supported for a long time, and in
> my experience, has fewer problems that jaunty.
>

Thanks. I considered reverting to 7.10, and would have been happy to stay
there had I had access to the repositories as they were at the time of
withdrawal of support, but I quickly found myself high and dry and wanting
more stuff. I looked at 8.04 but it doesn't offer the nvidia proprietary
driver,  which is a must for me. The FOSS driver is too slow on my machine.

If someone can reassure me that I can get the nvidia binary driver installed
on 8.04 without having to stand on one leg and bay at the moon, I'd be happy
to go with Hardy. Otherwise I might give Fedora 11 a spin - nothing to lose
really.

TIA

Neil.


> Hope to see you on arch one day,
>
> Laurie
>
> 2009/10/4 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>:
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > 2009/10/4 Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>:
> >> I was wondering if anyone has a personal recommendation for an
> alternative
> >> to Ubuntu for a desktop OS. I'm currently using Jaunty (9.04) and it is
> >> beset with niggling problems, viz
> >>
> >
> > A lot of ex-Ubuntu-users seem to like Arch Linux. I'm not convinced
> myself :)
> >
> > I'll happily help you get these issues reported as bugs, or help you
> > find them if you can give us some more detail.
> >
> > Filing bugs is super easy really... here's a good page about it..
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
> >
> >> My CD writer isn't recognised.
> >
> > Which make/model of drive is it?
> >
> >> The printer doesn't start until I reboot, and then after clearing the
> print
> >> queue it stops again. Result = I have to reboot every time I want to
> print
> >> something (all these reboots - is Ubuntu trying to be Windows, or what?
> :-)
> >> )
> >> 5 times out of 10 it won't do a clean shutdown.
> >>
> >
> > The guy who looks after CUPS (the printing system) for Ubuntu is
> > really attentive. I've had bugs fixed very quickly by him.
> >
> >> These are all regression from 7.10 Gutsy, which didn't have these
> problems
> >> and ran quite nicely until they withdrew the repositories in April and I
> >> couldn't get any more packages.
> >>
> >
> > The repositories for no-longer-supported releases aren't withdrawn,
> > they're moved:-
> >
> > http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/
> >
> >> Can anyone show me the way forward?
> >>
> >
> > What happens when you hit a bug in F11 / Arch / Slack / whatever
> > distro you choose next? Switch again? Surely that's going to become
> > very boring very quickly?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
> >
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:22:54 +0100
> Subject: [sclug] Ubuntu 9.04 issues
> >
> >
> > I'll happily help you get these issues reported as bugs, or help you
> > find them if you can give us some more detail.
> >
> > Filing bugs is super easy really... here's a good page about it..
> >
>
> Sadly my googling research has shown that the CD writer and printing issues
> have already been reported (albeit in 2008, so it may have been with
> reference to a beta), and the official response in the Ubuntu forums at
> that
> stage was 'unimportant so won't fix'. There was considerable agitated
> discourse about how this regression could be considered unimportant in a
> desktop OS, but the official view seemed not to budge. In the case of the
> CD
> writer it seemed to revolve around the new SCSI device interface and the
> number of wires in the cable. What the source of the printer issue was
> though to be I do not know.
>
> I should report the other bugs though.
>
> Neil.
>
>
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