[ubuntu-in] A Blog On Ubuntu Hardy Heron

[ramnarayan.k at gmail.com]

Hi

Am attaching below a blog on the tiresome Hardy Heron

http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?194-hardy-is-a-hard-time

While hardy heron is installed on my system i prefer Feisty fawn (with 
some upgrades of Gutsy Gibbon)

So what do the Hardy folks around think about this:

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Lionel Dricot: Hardy is a hard time
July 30, 2008
I'm tired of Hardy. Tired of the bugs, tired of this Operating System. 
Yes, for the first time, I really regret to use Ubuntu.

  Network-manager need 10 times more Wifi power to detect a Wifi and 
asks you your WEP key again and again, at least, when it works. But it's 
not a real problem because, anyway, Firefox and Epiphany are crashing on 
nearly half of the pages you browse daily. And, as usual, Evolution is 
frozen and requires a kill. So, why would you want to use a network ?

  Sound is shaggy so you fallback on VLC but, in Hardy, even VLC crashes 
and/or mess up your video. Want to cry and talk with someone ? Launch 
the Psi Jabber client and try to register a Jabber account. Just try. 
You believe you can only work ? At least if you don't need too much SMB 
shares on your desktop. Even using Nautilus is now impossible in spatial 
mode ! And I hope you don't have some disabilities.

  Just before the Hardy release, I decided to change my good old Debian 
server for an Ubuntu one. In order to be 100% Ubuntu, you know. Sigh... 
Since I upgraded to Hardy, suphp isn't working anymore. I spent 
countless hours on it but, no matter what, it doesn't work. The exact 
same files work fine under Debian with exactly the same configuration. 
In Hardy, well, if you have mod_php, suphp will be ignored. It you 
don't, suphp will simply fail with an Error 500 and a log full of 
"SecurityException in Application.cpp:440: Handler not found in 
configuration, Caused by KeyNotFoundException in Configuration.cpp:234: 
Handler "application/x-httpd-php" not found, Premature end of script 
headers". In normal times, I would say that I'm missing something, that 
I did a mistake. But I do not trust my system anymore. Why spending 
tireless night only to discover that, oops, this is a bug in some 
package because it was patched for some reason ? All my work is stalled 
like it never was. I tried to report as many bug as I can but 99% are 
already reported and, honnestly, in Hardy it would be a full-time job to 
just report all the bugs I see everyday.

  In the past years, I've converted countless people to Ubuntu. Nearly 
all of them are the most basic computer users you could imagine. I 
converted them because Windows was too complicated for them. They were 
all happy. All of them were completely astonished. Until they upgraded 
to Hardy.

  Today, each time I see one of those people, they talk to me about 
their computer problem. I wish we could sometime talk about the weather :

  - Hello, I have a problem on my comp...

  Then, they see the sadness in my eyes. I don't move a finger but they 
understand immediatly. Slowly, like an old tired man, I reply :
  - I know...

  Just wait until october...


  PS : I know that some answers will be "report the bugs". I did, but 
reporting doesn't solve. Some will say "send your patches". I did. Well, 
nearly nothing but I believe that all the people who don't contribute 
can also have a good Ubuntu experience. The goal is to have users. Last 
but not least; some will say that they don't experience all those bugs. 
I did. Some of my friends are even less lucky than me. Some have a few 
bugs only. But we all agree that we have ten times more problem than in 
Gutsy. I do not need to be convinced. I love Ubuntu and I will continue 
to love it because I'm sure that Hardy is an accident. Only an accident 
and that we, the community, will learn from this big mistake.
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