Fedora vs Ubuntu vs anything - where next with Linux?

[Alastair Stevens]

2009/1/17 Tom Ellis <tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk>
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 07:00:49AM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > I'd give Debian Etch a go.
>
> Second that.  Debian doesn't "just work" because you have to spend a little
> while setting it up the way you'd want -- but then it never "just breaks".
> _______________________________________________

Thanks Tom - yes, I think you've hit on the key point there. What's
really getting me is the *Just Breaks* aspect. I hopefully have enough
knowledge and experience to get things working and setup correctly,
but then I just want them to *stay* that way. When things just
randomly break, I start to wallow in despair.

And in just the last two weeks, an Ubuntu kernel upgrade broke my
graphics, my sound randomly stops working (pulseaudio blues?), the
various Gnome media apps seem to have become flakier than ever
(Rhythmbox mainly), Dovecot has gone feral, and so on...

Perhaps it's just "Ubuntu x.10" syndrome - I always found the .10
releases much flakier than the .04 releases (including LTS versions
obviously). And interestingly, this was first version that I
*upgraded* to, rather than clean-installed. But no-one likes taking a
step backwards, eh :-)  But perhaps I need to take a small step back
from the almost-bleeding edge.

In hardware terms, I'm on a common-as-muck modern Dell machine (Core 2
Duo, Intel board etc), indeed one of the very models on which Dell
ships Ubuntu pre-installed. So I'm fairly certain my hardware is rock
solid. Heck, it even runs Vi$ta smoothly, not that I ever use it....

Anyway, sorry for the drunken rant, but it really was just seriously
getting to me last night :-)

CHeers
AL

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