Had enough (of bugs)! (in the Mac/PowerPC version)

Simon Rönnqvist simon at iki.fi
Sat Dec 17 15:11:58 UTC 2005


On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:50, Noah Dain wrote:
> On 12/14/05, Simon Rönnqvist <simon at iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 05:39, Lionel wrote:
> > > Andy Choens wrote:
> > > > I only have experience
> > > > with the x86 and amd64 versions of Kubuntu.
> > >
> > > Likewise, I should have specified that in my post.
> >
> > OK, I'm happy to hear that Kubuntu does well on x86 and AMD64. I guess
> > using Kubuntu on a Mac is kind of uncommon, and therefore may have more
> > bugs.
> >
> >   cheers, Simon
> >
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>
> I've had absolutely zero problems here with kubuntu/breezy on x86.
> It's nice and fast too.
>
> Actually, I did have some minor problems at first with upgrades and
> config files, but those were resolved by deleting ~/.kde and starting
> anew.  My experiences on gnome have been similar.
>
> Are you sure your issues are with kde and not something lower level?
> Like bad drivers of some sort, buggy X11 server, maybe?  Konqueror
> shouldn't really be able to lock up and X server like that, unless
> it's tripping bug internal to the X server.
>
> SuSE is big on KDE.  Maybe they have a live cd you can try?
>
> --
> Noah Dain
> "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing
> to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM
> Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25


Well, I've had several people reporting no very little problems with the x86 
and AMD64 versions, which I'm happy to hear. But still I haven't heard 
anybody reporting anything about the PowerPC version (of Breezy).

  cheers, Simon




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