Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-22 Thread Chaim Keren-Tzion
I had experienced crashed with Fedora so I switched to Kubuntu and they went away. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: > Hi List, > I decided to move to fedora after using ubuntu for years, under the > pressure > to resolve freeze issues in two different boxes on ubuntu 8.04 an

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Meir Michanie
, i had to create a usb drive capable of botting the minimal install. i am writing this from the eee which got faster by large, Meir > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu > From: Moish > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Date: 21-05-2009 21:28 > >

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Moish
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to help solving these problems? Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Shahar Dag wrote: >Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right It means it has many (vocal(?) users. ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Meir Michanie
. I jumped to ubuntu when Debian screwed it up with the release with kernel 2.6.8 > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu > From: Ehud Karni > To: me...@mail.riunx.com > CC: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Date: 20-05-2009 22:25 > > > On Wed, 20 May

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Shahar Dag
lets have fun ! which is the best distribution Shahar Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> i ditched fedora in favor of ubuntu a few years ago, because of fedora > stability issues > Me too. I loved Fedora, but 500 MB of updates every week, and packages randomly breaking after updates, was too much. Ubuntu is much more stable. I have not had the stability issues that the OP mentioned

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:21:01 Meir Michanie wrote: > > What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop? > I want to install it and forget about it. > For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera. It depends on your needs. If you want just some very common tasks - like browsi

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Udi Oron
Hi! Meir Michanie wrote: I decided to move to fedora after using ubuntu for years, under the pressure to resolve freeze issues in two different boxes on ubuntu 8.04 and ubuntu 9.04. Yep, pulseaudio has issues. (Every time I try to run boxee it freezes the system, no other case I know of). A

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 20, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop? I want to install it and forget about it. For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera. I'm going to answer this as if it were a joke, it's not, but sometimes a little

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Meir Michanie
What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop? I want to install it and forget about it. For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera. > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu > From: geoffrey mendelson > To: "Leonid Podolny"

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 20, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Leonid Podolny wrote: Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. flamebait> Ubuntu suffers from the same disease that Red Hat Linux suffered from in the late 1990's.

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Leonid Podolny
s. If, by some amazing coincidence, all your hardware will work out of the box, than it will break during the next update. Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. ___ Linux

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Micha Silver
Noam Rathaus wrote: I have X11 crashing when viewing DVD movies, beside that nothing special. (We have 6 Ubuntu installations, 1 Kubuntu) On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Meir Michanie > wrote: Hi List, I decided to move to fedora after using ubuntu for years

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Meir Michanie
Yes, fedora uses pulseaudio too. But it may have a different version/implementation. It may not be related to pulseaudio too. Even do, with fedora I have pulseaudio kind of freezing but did not halt the whole system. > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu > Fr

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Erez D
funny, i ditched fedora in favor of ubuntu a few years ago, because of fedora stability issues erez. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: > Hi List, > I decided to move to fedora after using ubuntu for years, under the > pressure > to resolve freeze issues in two different bo

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Noam Rathaus
I have X11 crashing when viewing DVD movies, beside that nothing special. (We have 6 Ubuntu installations, 1 Kubuntu) On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: > Hi List, > I decided to move to fedora after using ubuntu for years, under the > pressure > to resolve freeze issues in

Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Meir Michanie
Hi List, I decided to move to fedora after using ubuntu for years, under the pressure to resolve freeze issues in two different boxes on ubuntu 8.04 and ubuntu 9.04. I wonder if anyone in the list experienced issues of random freezes on ubuntu since two months ago. The boxes were doing fine and it