Comments on: Trouble in Linux paradise using Ubuntu 8.04.1 and openSUSE 11.0

By: Eyes`Only

Eyes`Only — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:35:46 +0000

Hmm… Slackware doesn’t crash? What audio engine are you using in it?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:55:17 +0000

One of the reasons I don’t use Ubuntu or Opensuse is the you tube flash problem that keeps happening for me.

I really prefer firefox, so changing to another browser isn’t an option.

My own way around the problem was to install and use Slackware.

Although that won’t suffice for everyone, it worked for me.

I have yet to encounter one flash freeze or crash on the tube, using Slack, as I have so many other times running some other distros.

Also of note was using Linux Mint and the Flashplayer 10 plugin.

I did not experience a crash with it, although I did experience some slowdowns.

Go with what works for you and the issues that keep occurring for your own situation.

By: Eyes`Olnly

Eyes`Olnly — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:53:57 +0000

The flash crashing thing is not specific to OpenSUSE, it just happened to happen to you on OpenSUSE. It’s a bug with FF3 Flash concerning its integration with sound drivers. It happens on Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc. To verify what I’m saying, anyone who experiences can disable their sound and watch flash become 100% stable. Of course that defeats most of the reason for flash…

I’ve been testing betas of flash, now up to flash 10 beta 2, and the problem still exists. Hopefully someone finds a fix soon! FF2 is just not fun after using FF3!

By: ljpp

ljpp — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:10:26 +0000

Whoa! I am overwhelmed by the number of good responses and comments. Thank you for that.

Chip Bennett: Lack of OSS driver support might not be Ubuntus fault, but it is that they decided to switch “ipw” to “ilw” in their most important release (LTS).

Alex C.: I like to check out operating systems / distributions. Testing them generates good materials for the articles.

bjb_nyj101: The openSUSE flash issues is not limited to my system. Tons of people are experiencing it – one fix proposal is to update Firefox.

Dick: Indeed, Mandriva’s recent releases have been very good, just like PCLOS is as a Mandriva based distribution.

Albert: I am closely monitoring the progress of Mozilla’s Weave, so I need Firefox 3.x

na: Wake up and smell the roses! openSUSE 11.0 has been released some time ago.

By: Julio Poisot

Julio Poisot — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:16:12 +0000

There’s a new versión of pidgin in PCLinuxOS repositories.

I’m using it for about a month and solved the ICQ issue.

By: na

na — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:05:32 +0000

not to rain on your parade but openSUSE 11.0 has not been released yet and is an unstable testing distrubution that it not scheduled for release untill latter this year. OpenSUSE 10.3 is the current stable one for end users

By: Robenroute

Robenroute — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:26:03 +0000

Initially, using Network Manager, I also experienced a certain unreliability about my wireless connections. After uninstalling NM and switching to wicd, wireless connections are stable as the Tower Bridge.

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:59:04 +0000

I agree about firefox.
It crashes on ubuntu for me too. Instead of switching to another distro you could have used FF2 or ephphany or … or ….

I do agree that crashing FF within a LTS seems very weird.

By: foez

foez — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:00:16 +0000

Even in the commercial world there is a lot to improve. What about vista ? Blue screens ?
I bought vista and windows home server both had bugs that bad that I couldn’t work with it. I contacted microsoft and for support I had to pay extra.
I do agree about those issues on linux. But if you are a commercial worker you should try the enterprise editions. It’s not fair to compare free (devel) editions with commercial ones.
I found out that the ubuntu lts versions work great for most of the work.

By: Dick

Dick — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:29:12 +0000

I’ve tried a bunch of distros on my T41 and Mandriva 2008.0 is the best all around. Everything just works,except Java isn’t the greatest on all sites. Haven’t tried anything to tweak it.
Loaded 2009 Beta earlier and the week. I really like the look and feel but will wait until October for it. In the meantime, I’m sticking with the PowerPack version of 2008.0 until 2009 is out of the cooker.