On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Boaz Rymland <b...@rymland.com> wrote:
> geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. >> I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the >> same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other >> operating systems don't. >> > I had a similar issue that was resolved when I switched to a PCI ethernet > adapter with different chipset. > In my case it seemed as if the network "total loss" was related to long > periods of idle time - overnight and such. I suspected that whatever power > management or other idle-time related mechanism wasn't functioning ok. > Replacing the NIC resolved it. > > Ubuntu is not perfect. > I hope the descriptions here are not a sign of a major issue with this > release. > To the good or worse, its (arguably) one of the best Linux distros out > there and most likely the first recommended by many to be your grandma's > Windows replacement. > I also get irritated by it at times, but I also got irritated by Gentoo > (eventually it took me took much time to simply maintain it) and you can > find similar problems in any distro - even if you a true Linux zealot :-) > > Boaz. > > I still have some problems, - strange sound problems. Also, my laptop doesn't shut down anymore, i have to do it manually with ctrl-sysrq-S ctrl-sysrq-O. (i have fixed it by editing /etc/init.d/halt and removing the '-i' and '-h' from the halt command, which are not really needed in linux. now it shuts down.) but the major issue i see, is that many things in ubuntu are gui dependant: 1. I have no network connection unless i login to an X session. - previously, if i was in a hurry I would have switch to VT1 and do whatever i liked without waiting for the X session to settle and open a terminal. currently I can't do that with network dependent things, as there is no network without logging in to an X session. 2. many things are only configurable by GUI and not by command line, so i can not configure via VT or remotely via ssh. It seems that wanting to make linux more "DUMB-USER FRIENDLY", ubuntu forgot that linux is more than word processors and browsers. it is a system that makes everything more productable by using scripts, pipes, filters (e.g. sed, awk, etc ) etc... they focused more on making it MS-WIDOWS-LIKE. I appreciate ubuntu making it more easier to use, but they shouldn't forget its a linux system ... > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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