Ubuntu in the news

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:37:42PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

> Raphaël Berbain wrote:
> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10542
> > 
> > """
> > We got in a new loaner from LinuxCertified.com, the brand new LC2210D
> > model: a Centrino 1.80 GHz CPU, 512 MBs of RAM, Intel Extreme gfx
> > card, 40 GB drive and a 14" XGA TFT screen. The laptop comes with the
> > latest Ubuntu installed and sells for $1249. 
> > 
> > ../..
> 
> 5. After upgrading Ubuntu to the latest version using Ubuntu's update panel, mplayer stopped
> working, and also I couldn't load gnome as root anymore (I had to login as safe mode, and this would
> fix some gnome settings, log out, and then relogin to normal gnome).
> 
> If they installed 5.04 as a starter and he upgraded to breezy, i expect issues. This is not really
> an Ubuntu mistake.

It sounds like he rather installed the updates from
hoary-security/hoary-updates.  I think that is entirely unrelated to his
problem, though; it is clear that the reviewer was making system-level
changes (for example, setting a root password) at the same time.

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 - mdz