[ubuntu-za] Trusty Tahr not so trusty?

[Hilton Gibson]

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On 30 April 2014 10:06, William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> There is a app for nokia : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nokuntu/
>
> Quote from the site : "This is my version of a Nokia PC Suite(r) but for
> Ubuntu"
>
> has not been updates since 2011, so don't know if it will work on trusty
>
> The precise ppa is here :
> https://launchpad.net/~upubuntu-com/+archive/mobile
>
> William
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of Jan Greeff [
> jan at verslank.net]
> Sent: 30 April 2014 09:11
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Trusty Tahr not so trusty?
>
> Good, solid strategic comments, thanks Charl.
>
> My apologies if my heading sent the wrong message; Trusty is by far the
> best fresh-install experience that I have had. I asked for and received
> many comments that helped me to decide to go the fresh install route,
> and am not at all sorry. It co-incided with the arrival of my new SSD
> and everything is working extremely well.
>
> The only little niggle at this stage is my Nokia cellphone not
> connecting to transfer images, not a big deal.
>
> Take care,
>
> Jan
>
>
> On 29/04/2014 22:37, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> > There's always issues soon after the release. That's why I wait for the
> > first updated release (6 months) before trying it.
> >
> > I do software development and upgrades usually cause havoc, because
> > there's always some library that's broke or is not backward compatible.
> > I have to keep virtual machines of the previous releases to ensure that
> > I can compile apps that are compatible for each of the my platforms.
> > This is also the reason why I mostly release my (embedded) system only
> > on major releases, it limits the chaos I have to deal with.
> >
> > I never understood why Debian was so slow at updating their stable
> > releases. It now makes sense to me! Cutting edge and bleeding edge works
> > for your personal desktop, but slow and stable is better for commercial
> > and industrial applications.
> >
> > Charl
> >
> > On 29/04/2014 20:37, Jan Greeff wrote:
> >> After installing Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty my system could not detect my
> >> camera or cellphone to transfer images. I followed these following
> >> guidelines to install additional software after which the camera is
> >> now connecting, but the Nokia cellphone is still not connecting.
> >>
> >>
> http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2014/04/24/10-or-20-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr/
> >>
> >>
> >> There was no problem with this operation on my previous 12.04
> >> installation.
> >>
> >> According to this site there may be some bugs but I am not sure of
> >> they relate to my problem:
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libimobiledevice/+bug/1207812
> >>
> >> Any suggestions, please?
> >>
> >> Jan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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