On May 11, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote:
Another problem I have been experiencing for the past 3 major Ubuntu
distributions (8.*, 9.*, 10.04, 64 bit OS on a 64 bit dual core) is
that the X becomes extremely slow after a major operation (such as
running heavy-memory Matlab scripts, or even an ad with sound on
walla's weather page). It gives me the feeling that even once the
application is long gone, the memory is still not really freed.
While you are at it, my favorite UBUNTU bug. It was first discovered
around release 6. A workaround was found, but it no longer works.
At some time in the recent past the keyboard interface under X
changed. The version of X provided with UBUNTU did not accomodate the
change (for some reason it only shows up in UBUNTU) , while Apple did.
So if you enable remote connections via XDMCP on an UBUNTU system, and
connect using
MacOS's X server the keyboard is broken under Gnome.
Gnome is the prefered (as in prefered by the development team, meaning
it gets the most support, features, effort, etc) desktop for UBUNTU.
The workaround worked under MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) but has since stopped
working under 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard). It is definately
an UBUNTU bug and has been documented as so in their bug tracking
system.
The only working way of accessing the system and still use gnome is to
use VNC, which has it's own problems.
While this does not sound like a big issue, since MacOS X is UNIX, it
very nicely connects via SSH and supports X forwarding, which makes
remote use simple. Except that gnome does not work. :-(
Geoff.
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