* Charlie Wilkes peremptorily fired off this memo:
> I sometimes get frustrated about the situation with Ubuntu. On the one
> hand, it is an excellent OS, more stable than Windows, faster on
> comparable hardware, and with a better UI. But when I run across a
> broken driver in the repository, that _wasn't_ broken in the previous
> version, it gives me pause...
Well, Windows updates that break things give me pause, too.
With Debian Lenny, I've noticed little changes and minor glitches now
and again as I do updates (usually do them every other day or so).
I don't use apt to update the kernel or nvidia stuff, I prefer doing
that manually. So I've avoided those issues. However, genisoimage
1.1.6 has a bug in Joliet (a Windows extension) support, so I've got it
held at 1.1.2, and the repository is /still/ at 1.1.6.
One other gotcha. My VM stopped working one day. After a good search,
found out that my /var was full. Found about 6 Gb of old Deb packages
in /var/cache/apt/archives. Multiple versions of each package.
I imagine Ubuntu auto-purges them. (?)
--
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant
number of users want fixed.
-- Bill Gates, Focus Magazine No. 43 (23 October 1995)
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