Hi gang,
Lets face it, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is not as
great as its last LTS on the desktop, which was 6.06. It is not even as
great as 7.10!
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit on my desktop PC since
its release date, and I am still experiencing a few issues after latest
updates.
1. Flash player inside firefox does not work properly when
more than one flash player page is opened. the later opened one may not
display the flash content.
2. Flash play will play first 4 sec without
sound then stop if there is another application needs to use sound (mp3
player). It may not only happens with flash, i think some other application
is also having this problem.
3. wine is not reading the fonts in
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts <-- i know it might be more like wine's
problem
4. not able to play back rmvb files by using mplayer. the codec
seems installed, but it is not doing the job
I can go on and
on...
My point is, I was not experiencing any of these issue when i
was use 7.10. I know some of them may need some tweaks, but i was able to
make it work.
when i first install 8.04, i was surprised it ships
with FF3 beta. I know FF3 will be released soon at that time, but it is not
a good idea to put it in a LTS even though you are going to update it
later.
the new kernel, 2.6.24, is having a lot of compatible issue.
For example, VMware does not like that new kernel, some modules can not be
compiled.
It might only be 64 bit's problem only, since i need it
to see all my ram without enable pae or hugemem. Or that is just my stupid
configuration or limited knowledge.
I think, Ubuntu team should
really re-consider using the newest software package in the LTS release. The
newest is not always the "best" in linux.
I will re-install 8.04
64bit tonight to see if i can fix those issues i listed. If not, i think i
will go back to 7.10.
Thanks
Q
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