On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:03:51 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:48:53 -0500, Rick wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:17:56 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb. <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:52:18 -0400
>>> <193utslp9fefr.vxy5b1umljxs.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:47:56 +0100, Homer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>>>>>
>>>>> [snip DooFy's belligerent frothing]
>>>>>
>>>>>> Man, you got a warped groove.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's hilarious how the Trolls keep accusing Roy of "lying" ...
>>>>> because he posts somebody *else's* opinion/experience.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The same could be said of your side of the debate Homer.......
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Moshe might have a point. A fair amount of verbiage in COLA has been
>>> expended on Ubuntu freezes -- freezes whose cause does not appear
>>> clear, beyond the fact that they might be happening on one of the
>>> Ubuntu versions.
>>>
>>> Whether this verbiage is:
>>>
>>> - authentic, meaning somebody out there has a legitimate problem
>>> and is not being specific enough
>>> or
>>> - trollish, meaning someone's out to make trouble or - duplicated from
>>> elsewhere, which means someone took the
>>> original comment and spread it around
>>>
>>> I for one don't know, though hopefully the problems, if they truly
>>> exist, can be sufficiently nailed down to a specific device. For
>>> example, I *know* I can hang my nx9010 if I attempt to use its
>>> winmodem/linmodem (I'm using the slamr module; scanModem suggests I
>>> need a different driver -- 'hsf' -- entirely); an autodetection script
>>> finding it may therefore give itself headaches.
>>>
>>> (It's a problem, but the number of times I've used dialup this year is
>>> less than 1 anyway. ;-) )
>>
>> It sounds like there has been an increase in freezes in the last
>> version of Ubuntu. However, I haven't seen anyone looking back to see
>> if the problems or problem has been fixed. But here, of course, it is
>> the people dissing Linux systems that are screaming the most about
>> Ubuntu, so they have a vested interested in not reporting of progress.
>
> You better add Fedora users to the list as well....
.. and all the problems the same, or do they share symptoms?
... and, apparently, you can subtract the PCLOS, Mandriva, Suse, etc
users.
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Rick
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