Re: Switching OS

2014-04-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Stephen Barr wrote: I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when it fouls up file names. I have a lot of work to do on my website and this is

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-11 Thread Mr Queue
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:30:13 -0700 Stephen Barr wil...@sonic.net wrote: when it fouls up file names This sounds like file system corruption resulting from a kernel panic. I would go as far to presume that occasionally it takes forever to reboot on such a lockup because it caught a forced fsck

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:34:17 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Stephen Barr wrote: I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when

Switching OS

2014-04-10 Thread Stephen Barr
I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when it fouls up file names. I have a lot of work to do on my website and this is driving me crazy. Can I download Debian, delete Ubuntu and have

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/04/14 13:30, Stephen Barr wrote: I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when it fouls up file names. I have a lot of work to do on my website and this is driving me crazy. Can I

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Stephen Barr wrote: I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when it fouls up file names. I have a lot of work to do on my website and this is

Re: Switching OS

2014-04-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/04/14 14:31, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Stephen Barr wrote: I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, especially when it fouls up file names. I have a