Jaunty Musings

[Amichai Rotman]

So, I'd like to make sure. Is Jaunty kind of a beta release?

Is the KDE 4.2.2 not fully ready and functional or is it the upgrade
that broke my system?

Should I revert to Kubuntu 8.04 LTS or just re-install Jaunty from scratch?

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 01:58, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>
>> On Friday 01 May 2009 05:12:08 pm Ian L. Target wrote:
>>> marc wrote:
>>> > Ian L. Target said:
>>> >> Also, I had K-Mail up for less than five minutes before it crashed . .
>>> >> .
>>> >
>>> > Yeah, it's flaky as heck. Shame. Please file a bug, though, if you have
>>> > enough ammo.
>>>
>>> I am much to lazy to file a bug!  I don't use K-mail enough to warrant
>>> the effort.  I only use it (with an alias) for,  well, things I
>>> shouldn't be doing in the first place . . .
>> I sometimes wonder if because I am operating a 64bit system that is why I
>> don't have the problems with Jaunty that seem common to others.  I only
>> had
>> one problem that really muddled up the works, and I think it has been
>> fixed.  I had to add pci-nomsi to the boot instruction to get the bugs out
>> of my system.
>> All seem to have gone now with the inclusion of that instruction.  Kmail
>> has worked beautifully for 2 months now.
>
> Not really.  kmail is pretty stable.  I'm pretty sure there are a few people
> having trouble that can be "flaky as heck", but if they're too lazy to file
> bugs, the bugs are not likely to get fixed.  If the bugs were common, and
> easy to reproduce, they'd get fixed.  It's the ones that only affect a few
> people that never get fixed.
>
>
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