Is Hardy ltsp ready for production?

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 11:01:07 GMT 2008


Talking about evince, on Gutsy, it will not print certain pdf documents, so
I had to resort to installing Adobe Reader 8, which is why I probably didn't
notice that one... still, the updates are only on one computer, after all
its ltsp... ;-)

David

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2008/2/27 David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>:
>
> > I have it installed on a production server, and the only things I
> > noticed that might be problematic are:
> >
> > - cds showed on multiple systems when put into a client machine (with
> > authorisation warning)
> > - printing didn't work in firefox 3 beta 3 (should be fixed in beta 4)
> >
> > Other than that, no issues...
>
>
> I upgraded my girlfriend's laptop and we discovered a nasty memory leak in
> evince (aka poppler), the PDF viewer fairly quickly.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/195183
>
> I'd be a little worried about using Hardy in production until it's
> released, not specifically because of LTSP but because of the Ubuntu system
> as a whole not being stable yet.
>
> You'll also have a mountain of updates to apply which will be fixing and
> breaking things for the next month or two.
>
> Gavin
>
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