Using what works

[David Stephens]

I agree in part, however if you chose to run the latest greates it seems
that you will always run into bugs. In the Windoz world it doesn't seem like
a good idea to run the latest OS in a business / mission critical
environment. My home "workstations" run "Heron" I only have one running Ibex
and a couple of Ibex's on Virtual Box.

If you want stability there is always Slackware.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Brody McDonald <
brody.mcdonald at ketteringschools.org> wrote:

> Maybe I'm just not enough of a computer guy... how is it an upgrade if
> previously working items stop working?
>
> Would Honda announce the "new" Accord... now WITHOUT power windows!
>
> Oh, well... I'm just being silly now.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-studio-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-studio-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of SkipF
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:19 AM
> To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Using what works
>
>
>  I agree with Glenn. While the advantages to 'upgrading' are
> incremental,
>  the DOWNSIDE can be debilitating. 8.04 works with my Audigy 2
>  soundcard, 8.10 doesn't. And HAL doesn't see my mouse through
>  a KVM switch, so it modifies xorg.conf upon boot-up. After three
>  times, I plugged my 8.04 drive in,  and restored sound and mouse.
>    "New" does not mean good. New means different.
>    Skip Flem
>    Boston (or somewhere near there...)
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>  From: Glenn Holmer <gholmer at ameritech.net>
>  > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 19:57 -0800, Rafael Chacon wrote:
>  > > Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu every six months. As
> each
>  > > new version, it is normal that the new version has fewer bugs than
> the
>  > > previous one (e.g. Windows 2008 has fewer bugs than Windows Vista).
>  >
>  > Strongly disagree.  I upgraded from 8.04 "Heron" to 8.10 "Ibex", and
>  > found it so buggy that I actually downgraded several machines to 8.04
>  > (including my main box).  LTS (long-term support) releases like 8.04
>  > will by definition always be more stable than the "let's release
> every
>  > six months whether it's ready or not" versions.
>  >
>  > This is why I don't think it's that big a deal that the real-time
> kernel
>  > is not available for Studio 8.10; I've stayed on 8.04 and been happy.
>  >
>
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