Igor Chudov wrote: > I think that the "Linux world" is in big trouble. > > Despite the multitudes of "distros" and "projects", there is not a viable, > relatively bug free and usable desktop available among the currently > supported projects (in the post-Gnome 2 world). > > Gnome 3, Unity, and pretty much everything else sucks, is unusable and full > of bugs, crashing wobbly windows and missing functionality. > > That stuff is a joke. Just try "Ubuntu 12.04" if you do not believe me. > Well, there are good reasons for "users" to not run the bleeding edge software, especially for work that counts. I'm probably one of the worst, still running CentOs 5.2 on my desktop at work and home. These are really out of date kernels, and I run into compatibility and update issues often. But, I run Linux, VmWare and Win 2Kpro together on these systems, with a fair number of hard to install and configure CAD packages, so I HATE to go through the update hassle. It usually takes a minimum of 2 weeks to get everything back to running properly, even after just a hard drive replacement. (This system has been up 52 days which is no record, my system at work was up over 400 days once. No UPS, either.)
I've set up a couple Beagle Board systems with a pretty recent kernel and it seems to work fine, although I normally run it via ssh login rather than a kbd, mouse and monitor directly on the system. But, I have also run Ubuntu 10.04, and it seems to work fine for general-purpose use. So, I wonder if 12.04 will get cleaned up over time and become reliable as well. Unfortunately, they do seem to be following M$'s lead and putting in all sorts of flash and crap that isn't needed and can cause bugs. Also, if running on newer hardware, you may need a BIOS update for the motherboard. A number of Atom board users have reported strange problems and rotten RT latency was fixed by updating the motherboard BIOS. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
