On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 08:59 AM, Tom H wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4centos@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM,m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Odd you should mention it - a friend on a techie mailing list just tried to set up dual-boot XP w/ ubuntu, and had all *kinds* of grief, dunno if she just restored XP. Wouldn't recognize her USB keyboard, didn't get the graphics card and monitor right (which does surprise me), and she had fun trying to find in which submenu the X settings were (applications, not system!).
My brother called this weekend. He's a Windows programmer who has recently started experimenting with Linux. Ubuntu, specifically. He upgraded and then his ATI video card quit working correctly. He finally found the solution, but he searched all day (I was no help to him). I have one partition set up with Linux Mint 10 (because my Dad uses Linux Mint and I want to be able to support him over the phone). Every time I boot up, Nautilus and Gnome-Panel don't come up. (I have to go to a terminal and type "pkill nautilus" and "pkill gnome-panel" to get them to work.) So, although Mint is "pretty" and uses modern packages, it's not rock solid like CentOS.
I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for Ubuntu.
Yeah, I wondered how it managed to become popular with broken NetworkManager back in the 7.x releases and other goodness like pulseaudio.
Serves me right for recommending something I had not myself tried. Blooming embarrassing having to talk colleague's son through the steps necessary to bring up eth0 and then stick stuff in /etc/resolv.conf.
But hey, it's just trading one set of issues with another anyway. No more compiling Nvidia/ATI binary blob kernel modules was a plus.
In any case, an LTS release for a server is a joke. How many PPA's have you added for your servers?