On 13-06-08 07:05 PM, Josh G wrote:
It's not the first time Ubuntu has caused dependency problems in the
server distro,
and it's quite disappointing to hear that it's still an issue. I gave up
on Ubuntu server
3 years ago for this very thing. This is 2013, this problem should not
be happening
for a distro that is marketed for production environments.
We need to be clear here - the dependency problem occurred due to a
previously failed upgrade which was caused when my server ran out of
room on the /boot partition. This is NOT the distro's fault directly,
in this particular case.
We may consider it the distro's fault indirectly for a couple of reasons:
1) The distro chose a 300 MB /boot partition when it installed (I got
lazy and didn't reset the partitions to something sane).
2) The distro does not clean up old kernels automatically. Rather it
leaves them sitting there un-used.
3) The distro (or more specifically the package manager) does not seem
to be checking disk space before doing an installation/upgrade.
BUT, that list of issues could easily apply to any distro I've worked
with over the past 10+ years.
Otherwise, I agree with your sentiments towards more stable systems.
This is why I've installed the LTS version on this server. But Ubuntu
in general has been falling out of favor with me over the past year or
so. My next desktop install likely will not be a Ubuntu based system -
They continually mess up on seeing or using my graphics card properly,
which also leads to some rather arbitrary disappointments - like
unstable WebGL in Chrome (if it works at all).
My thoughts...
Shawn
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