although i am not new to linux (using it since about 1995, both as user and sysadmin) i am relativly new to ubuntu (and debian).
i migrated from fedora, which was not stable, to centos (rhel clone) which was stable enough but missing a lot of applications, and the apps it had were of older versions, which did not support many needed things. so i decided to test ubuntu. at work i installed ubuntu 6.10 edy x86_64 about a month ago. it was easy to use as windows is it was stable as windows is (it crushed in 1 month more than centos in 2 years) however, i was told it is the 64bit issue. many apps are missing in the 64version (for example macromedia's oroginal flash). some where solved by installing the 32bit versions of firefox, flash, mplayer ... mplayer32 crashes every time so i am using the mplayer64 which is stable but not many codecs firefox32 works well about Nvidia: for some reason, i have to reinstall nvidia after each end every boot !!! what i did like about ubuntu is that it has almost any program i can think of ported to it and easily installed with 'apt-get program' although it took me a lot of time adapting to not have /etc/inittab. so i decided to install it on a spare partition on my home machine. and had the problems i reported in my original mail. the subject is 'ubuntu for smart human beings only' becuase the error report i got was cryptic, which does not suit a distribution which calles itself 'linux for human beings'. and not because i didn't understand the error msg. so, what is the ubuntu convention ? which ubuntu is stable, which is not fully baked (aka beta), and which is alpha ? thanks, erez. On 2/11/07, Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
El dom, 11-02-2007 a las 22:35 +0200, ik escribió: > > The real problem with Ubuntu (that hopefully 7.06 will solve that) is > that 6.10 was half beaked when it was released, and you feel it. There were problems with some packages as, I experienced, Nvidia drivers, Flash plugin and the HAL daemon all of them solved by the updates. Another issue was the integration with some BIOS. Most cases were solved and everything is well documented at the Ubuntu wiki/ forum. Ubuntu 7.04 will solve many problems and will opens new ones as usual. Neither 6.10 or 7.04 are intended for long time support as is 6.06 Julian > > Ido > > On 2/11/07, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > > > have tryed to install ubuntu edgy 6.10 i386 on my pc, and it crashed during > > install > > so i did a 'check disk for defects' and got a strange msg: > > > > check finished: 0 checksums failed. > > > > what is that ? is that a psycometric test to see if i am smart enough to > > install ubuntu ? > > (btw, i googled for it, and i saw people thinking this means error, and > > other thinking this means ok) > > > > and at ubuntu.com they say: > > > > ubuntu - linux for human beings > > > > go figure. > > > > > > > > -- Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
