Rant 2: oh dear, it's another Ubuntu x.10 release

[Alastair Stevens]

2009/10/25 Paul <paul+clug at mansfield.co.uk>:
> Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau wrote:
>> I think one needs to make a clear distinction what a box is used for: if
>> it's a production server or desktop or laptop, then steer clear of the
>> cutting edge stuff.
>
> that's all very well, but alhough we were using ubuntu 8.xx LTS we were
> forced to use 9 non-LTS when we bought some Dell R710 (dual xeon
> L5520-based) servers as the 64 bit kernel didn't work with the memory
> controller.  After we gave up nagging for a back-ported kernel and fired
> up 9.04, it emerged later tan the ubuntu people simply didn't have a
> machine of that class for testing (had they said, we could have set
> something up for them, we did have 37 servers so one could have been set
> aside one for testing :-)

Anyway guys, it's only Netbook Remix, and I guess the Intel video
driver thing still hasn't settled down.

But given that said Intel driver "issue" was a *major* focus of
development, and given that they've touted a 'production quality
release candidate' suitable for 'testing by all', and it won't even
boot on the *most common* bog standard Intel netbook hardware
platform, I think a little rant is justified!

I finally got UNR booting under KVM using 'std vga' graphics, and
although it's vaguely pretty, I think I actually prefer the 9.04
interface anyway, so the netbook shall remain with that for now :-)

The next step is to spin up the 64-bit main release on a 64-bit KVM
guest and see how it plays. I want to be absolutely sure that it
actually works properly before I risk upgrading my main desktop....

Cheers
AL

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