Should I downgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 from 8.10?

[Joep L. Blom]

Armando Menendez wrote:
> An additional consideration:
> 
> I was testing 8.10 on a Dell Latitude 630 laptop, and the wireless
> functions simply worked and appeared to be much more reliable and
> effective.  8.10 always connects with a better signal strength
> indicated...
> 
> However because of work constraints I also need to run Windows.
> 
> I tried a dual boot system, there were problems.
> 
> Then I decided to go back to my old faithful - Windows running in
> VMware.
> 
> VMware doesn't run correctly in 8.10 (it isn't on their compatibility
> list so I can't blame them), as soon as you install the VMware Tools,
> things start to either crash or get corrupted.
> 
> If anyone has managed to get VMware running correctly in 8.10 I'd be
> interested in how they made it work...
> 
> I've gone back to 8.04.  :-(
> 
> Armando
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:16 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> Samuel Rohde wrote:
>>> Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 from 8.04 I have had nothing but
>>> problems. Is 8.10 worth it? What should I do? What is your experience?
>>>
>>>   
>> I run 8.10 on an Asus F3jr notebook and 8.10 server on a Supermicro 
>> P3tder. Both are trouble free so far. In the notebook case I find the 
>> wireless networking better in 8.10 than 8.04 - for instance much faster 
>> to re-associate after a suspend/resume. In the server case, 8.10 was 
>> quite a b***h to get running after installation, but now I have that 
>> sorted out, it is well behaved.
>>
>> In the notebook case I use it for development, so it needs to work 
>> reliably. I guess if it had not, I would have reverted to 8.04. So in 
>> your case maybe stick with the release that works - after all  8.04  is 
>> a good release!
>>
>> The server is just for learning purposes - where I work uses Debian 
>> servers and I had been used to Gentoo, so felt the need to increase my 
>> 'apt-foo'! In that context the fact that it took me several days to 
>> debug the various boot issues connected with software raid and ramdisk 
>> was actually a bonus (viewed in *hindsight*, a bit frustrating at the 
>> time) - I learned a lot :-).
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Mark
>>
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> 
> 
Try VirtualBox (is in synaptic).
Joep