Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft's Vista Challenge (eWeek) [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft's Vista Challenge (eWeek)

Posted Jan 14, 2007 5:40 UTC (Sun) by ArbitraryConstant (guest, #42725)
In reply to: Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft's Vista Challenge (eWeek) by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft's Vista Challenge (eWeek)

Ubuntu is definitely buggier than Debian, but the discussed issue would seem to be a bug that doesn't impact everyone. I installed the same update he did, and the datestamp on my xorg.conf is still from november 2006.

There have been other issues that I've run into though, eg there was a memory leak that got introduced in a patch and fixed a week or two ago that made it impossible to run X for more than a day or two. Then there was that update last year that hosed X entirely for some people.

I wouldn't mind some better QA, but in my experience it's about as good as it gets without resorting to Debian-stable and similar, which generally start to feel pretty out of date before they're updated.