Re: ubuntu unreliable - options??

Moog wrote:
Mike Scott illuminated uk.comp.os.linux by typing:
I've been making a serious effort over the past few weeks to switch from XP to ubuntu. I'm so nearly there, but......

Thunderbird, nfs/automount and hibernation seem to make an evil mix. They seem to conspire together to make an unreliable machine - causing unpredictable problems such as outright system hangs, and hibernate not working consistently (even on this, a desktop machine).

I don't hibernate. I have issues, and it's all down to ACPI
implentation.

Seems a general comment. But if w*ws can manage, I don't see why the 'nixes shouldn't too.


If it is a show stopper for you, you may wish to look at a distro such
as Slackware or Gentoo. This would give you a much better chance of
patching the kernel to accomodate "acpi buggy" bioses.

It is a show stopper; but there I /really/ don't want to go....

I don't use thunderbird. Evolution is far easier IMHO.

Probably. But I want something to work cross-platform, between XP and ubuntu/whatever and with a common "profile". I've found nothing other than TB to do this.


NFS is fine here.

I gather from the 'net that hibernate is prone to "issues" - so does anyone have useful suggestions what best to try next? A different linux distro? Or do they all have similar problems? Or head straight for freebsd (with which I'm familiar anyway) or its cousin desktopbsd?

Hmmm. Down to you really. Why not pop in a few liveCD's and see what
gives.

I did work through a few; but it never occurred to me that hibernate would be an issue. Same comment over locking (which causes TB a few hiccups when the profile is on nfs)


Thanks.


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Mike Scott (unet1 <at> scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England
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