Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds [LWN.net]

Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds

Posted Mar 3, 2009 14:57 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
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GOD. YES. I have also given up filing bugs on launchpad for exactly the three reasons you stated.

Instead of upgrading my parents' computer when I am next home, I'm going to install Debian instead. The only problem will be explaining where the Firefox logo went...

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Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds

Posted Mar 4, 2009 21:08 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

> Instead of upgrading my parents' computer when I am next home, I'm going
to install Debian instead. The only problem will be explaining where the
Firefox logo went...

I switched from Ubuntu (Feisty) to Debian (Lenny) half a year ago and
about only thing that's worse is that no Flashplayer (neither Open Source
nor proprietary) works properly in Konqueror (I'm using KDE3 desktop).

There's no update applet for KDE(3) either, but I'm doing my updates with
Synaptic anyway, so it's not a problem (IMHO viewing package changes is
much better in Gnome Synaptic than KDE Adept).

Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds

Posted Mar 5, 2009 12:45 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

It's interesting that flash doesn't work for you in Konqueror.

What are the symptoms?

Are you using AMD64? If so, are you using the 64-bit plugin? Also do you have konqueror-nsplugins installed, and are you using gtk-qt-engine? I know that the KDE3 version of gtk-qt-engine causes Flash to crash in KDE4, which I assumed was due to version incompatibilities, but it's possible that it just doesn't work with Flash in Konqueror at all.

Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds

Posted Mar 5, 2009 21:27 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

> What are the symptoms?

Crashes and freezes.

> Are you using AMD64 / konqueror-nsplugins

32-bit (6 years old Athlon XP). Have nsplugins. KDE is v3.

Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds

Posted Mar 9, 2009 13:53 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

Hmm, 'crashes and freezes' sounds like it's something completely different to the consistent, reproducible crash I had. Actually I never had any problems with Flash in KDE3 on a 32-bit system, sorry. I'd check for the gtk-qt-engine though, just in the (probably vain) hope that it might be connected...