Good news?

[aesmael]

It seems upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 got my speakers working, handy since I no longer have any working headsets and apparently a contrary experience to many other people. That seems to be a primary complaint with any new version of Ubuntu, "My sound stopped working!"

Unfortunately I still have to deal with programs intermittently freezing and becoming unusable for periods of time, more often than happens in Vista, and puzzle out why Pidgin seems to be experiencing this to the point of being completely unusable (for now, using Kopete). Those are at least old problems and not new problems, unless 8.10 has fixed the old problems and replaced them with new ones which look identical. We shall see how much clearing out this months-old saved session of Firefox helps, perhaps with freeing up RAM - it can't cure the problem though, as it happens with Pidgin even if that is the only program I have started, at all.

Hopefully. When it is working well I tend to prefer Ubuntu over Vista.

Comments

[dclarion.livejournal.com]

I tried 8.10 on my experimental machine, but the dual-boot had trouble with Fnord. So, it seems, I need to hack around a bit with Fnord to get the boot loader to find the root partition. We can do this.

:o)

[nacho-cheese.livejournal.com]

I used to work with an IT guy who had installed Ubuntu on all the work computers since he hated Windows so much. I have to admit, I did prefer Ubuntu over Windows, and say the same (times about a million) for OS-X. :)