Comments on: A Question of Perspective

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:55:56 +0000

i started with 9.04 about 4 months ago as my first taste of Linux,learned a lot and loved it.
about a week ago i upgraded to 9.10 the only issuses i got into the sound being muted in a deep far off menu and the my firefox lost its bookmarks (had backup)
i love 9.10 a lot,guess i was just lucky…

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By: Tim Bower

Tim Bower — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:32:15 +0000

I upgraded to 9.10 on Saturday. This was on a laptop (Toshiba with Intel graphics card), and I use an external monitor. Initially, I could only mirror the display. So I was pretty bummed. Sunday I looked on Launchpad and others reported the same problem. A patch was released on Monday that fixed the problem.

My initial disappointment has turned to marvel that the Ubuntu team fixed the problem so fast. You won’t get that level of service/support from Microsoft. Next time Ubuntu issues a new release, I might wait a week before upgrading. All considered, I’m a happy Ubuntu convert (came over from Red Hat / Centos, which I still like but wish they were a little more current).

By: Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:04:14 +0000

Yann, the latest LTS release is Hardy Heron, Ubuntu 8.04. With that you would be on OpenOffice 2.4 and Firefox 3.0.

My hunch is that a later version of OpenOffice may be available through backports, though.

By: mrben

mrben — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:48:14 +0000

Personally I’ve never had a problem upgrading Ubuntu boxes, and thus I agree with your post. In the past, many people I’ve spoken to have had problems that were self-induced, rather than upgrade induced. My netbook upgraded to Karmic with no noticeable problems as yet.

As I have noted before, we need to be increasingly aware of the “level 0″ users who will simply expect everything to work, and have no interest in learning anything about their system. Having said that, I still think that Ubuntu is still the best distribution available for this, despite some people having problems. The biggest targets always attract the most rocks thrown.