[Bug 391945] Launchpad advice

[jpcjackson]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 389322 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389322

Dear Montel,

Thanks for your notes regarding Pidgin connectivity to Yahoo from the  
Launchpad site.

You'll have to forgive me, not only am I new to Linux, but I also  
don't know the protocol for the Launchpad site, or whether it is okay  
to contact a member directly or instead post to the site.  Perhaps you  
can advise about that as well.

Anyway, I have two messages from you as follows:

1.
> You are not using the newest release of Ubuntu. There is a release fix
> for Pidgin on Jaunty, and others have confirmed that it does work  
> after
> the fix.

2.
> Easy Peasy is really Ubuntu 8.10, I am sue that you know that. There  
> is
> a fix relase for Jaunty and it appears that other users have confirmed
> that it indeed is fixed in the newest release. I am on an EEE Pc right
> now, and I am running Xubuntu 9.04. You should really try it out. It
> indeed is worth it

Yes, I did know that Easy Peasy 1.1. is an Ubuntu 8.10 based distro.    
My Asus 901 came with Xandros which I really didn't like, and I found  
their repositories most unreliable.  The two distros that appeared  
tailored to the EEE PCs which I test drove via USB and did like were  
Easy Peasy and Cruncheee.  Both of course are not using the new Ubunbu  
9.04.  I guess I had assumed that I needed to look for a distro which  
was optimized for the EEE.  Cruncheee comes with few programs  
installed (but an attractive interface).  One can always add what you  
would really use later, I suppose.  Easy Peasy is more fully fleshed  
out, but then it does have many things I will never use (games, for  
example).   Easy Peasy warns against upgrading to 9.04.  I don't know  
what Crunch Bang says about the issue.

Further confusing to me is that everyone seems to have a later version  
of Pidgin than is available to me.  Mine is 2.5.2, but the Updater  
shows it as the highest available to me on this Distro.  A Pidgin  
Security patch was just released, and it was after that that I was no  
longer able to connect, so I'm not sure where my issue fits into the  
larger Yahoo server picture.

 From your second note, I gather that you are happy with Xubuntu 9.04,  
and that everything seems to work as it is supposed to on an EEE.  I  
have to admit that I hadn't researched that yet.  I'll start to do  
that right now.  (I have to get my "Linux" friend to help with  
installations and all.   I am competent of Windows and Macs which I  
still own and use, but totally new to Linux.)

Christopher

Dr. J-P. Christopher Jackson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
The University of Lethbridge
http://www.uleth.ca/finearts/music/staff
(See Professors Emeriti Group)

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