Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

[Christoph Bier]

Ioannis Vranos schrieb am 25.04.2008 15:12:

> Christoph Bier wrote:
>> Mario Vukelic schrieb am 25.04.2008 13:59:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:49 +0200, Christoph Bier wrote:
>>>> Of course, no! But even if I did: Did I miss a warning about closing
>>>> every application before upgrading?
>>> Oh ok. I just wanted to clarify. Still, relying on the session for very
>>> important stuff is asking for trouble. FF has this handy "Bookmark all
>>> Tabs" feature :)
>> 
>> I know that there are always strategies to prevent data loss. And of
>> course I take backups every day. But these research results didn't
>> find its way to the backup because I found them between two backups.
>> And yes, I could have taken another backup before upgrading ... But
>> I didn't for different reasons (most important: lack of time) and I
>> really did not expect that a FF session could be lost by an upgrade.
>> Maybe that's just the last straw. I had so many hardware issues with
>> Ubuntu in the last year that took me so many time (I filed
>> respective bug reports). I'm a friend and supporter of FOSS and even
>> FF (I paid for an ad of FF 1 in a big german news paper)! But I
>> don't have the time anymore to handle all the time consuming issues.
>> After upgrading to Gutsy I listed 1½ ISO A4 paper with problems
>> introduced by Gutsy. And now after upgrading to Hardy a new list is
>> growing again ...
>> 
>> Don't take my gripe amiss.
> 
> 
> In case every Ubuntu version does not work for you for some reason, you
> may try Scientific Linux 5.x which is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
> derivative, like CentOS, although I recommend SL instead of CentOS as
> better organised (it has the main third-party repositories mirrored and
> configured to use).

Thanks for the hint! It's some years ago that I had to work with Red
Hat at work and I never gave SL a try because I really like Debian's
package management. So I decided to try Ubuntu's first release and
was very pleased! I learned to admire the advantages of a well
preconfigured OS that even takes care on design which makes working
nicer and more motivating---at least for me.

I will install SL in a virtual machine to test it.

Best
Christoph
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