On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:28:36 -0400, DFS wrote:

> "I am very new to Ubuntu and this is my first post to these forums. I have
> two elderly Dell machines running Hardy 8.04, both running wireless and one
> of them experiences a complete freeze seemingly randomly every other day
> while browsing FF3. The freeze is accompanied by the keyboard flashing cap
> locks and scroll lock keys. A hard shutdown is necessary to break the
> freeze.
>
> One machine, which is running OK without a freeze, is an 8 year old P3 Dell
> with a maxed 512meg RAM, a nvidia TNT video card, and 866mzh CPU. It is a
> wirless connection using a Linksys WRT54G.
>
> The second machine, which freezes, is a newer P4 Dell 4500 with a 2.26gig
> CPU and 768meg RAM. I was given this machine a few days ago and installed
> Ubuntu. I don't know what the video card is but using either the generic
> video driver or nvidia provided, freezes nevertheless. It also has a
> wireless Linksys WRT54G."
>
> #282 at
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...freeze&page=29
>
>
>
> Linux just works.

What a joke this Ubuntu is.
It's like Linux is moving backwards and getting worse, if that is even
possible.



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Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:28:36 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> "I am very new to Ubuntu and this is my first post to these forums. I have
>> two elderly Dell machines running Hardy 8.04, both running wireless and one
>> of them experiences a complete freeze seemingly randomly every other day
>> while browsing FF3. The freeze is accompanied by the keyboard flashing cap
>> locks and scroll lock keys. A hard shutdown is necessary to break the
>> freeze.
>>
>> One machine, which is running OK without a freeze, is an 8 year old P3 Dell
>> with a maxed 512meg RAM, a nvidia TNT video card, and 866mzh CPU. It is a
>> wirless connection using a Linksys WRT54G.
>>
>> The second machine, which freezes, is a newer P4 Dell 4500 with a 2.26gig
>> CPU and 768meg RAM. I was given this machine a few days ago and installed
>> Ubuntu. I don't know what the video card is but using either the generic
>> video driver or nvidia provided, freezes nevertheless. It also has a
>> wireless Linksys WRT54G."
>>
>> #282 at
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...freeze&page=29
>>
>>
>>
>> Linux just works.
>
> What a joke this Ubuntu is.
> It's like Linux is moving backwards and getting worse, if that is even
> possible.
>
>
>

If you think freezing in any Linux distro is bad, you obviously haven't
used Windows long enough for it to go poop on you without warning.

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:58:32 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> It's like Linux is moving backwards and getting worse, if that is even
> possible.

Yep - It's called 'Vista'


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"A J Hawke" <ajh@lawlessland.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> --
> Dog walks down the road. Gust of wind. Dog inside out.
> I've replaced my 'old joke' signature because a better man than me told
> me to ;-)

At least you're wise enough to recognize a better man.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:42:07 +0100, Ben wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> What a joke this Ubuntu is.
>> It's like Linux is moving backwards and getting worse, if that is even
>> possible.
>>
>>
>>
>
> If you think freezing in any Linux distro is bad, you obviously haven't
> used Windows long enough for it to go poop on you without warning.

I've used every version of Windows from Windows 2.0 to present
I use it everyday.
In fact right now I am submixing 14 tracks of digital audio using Nuendo
while I am writing this.

Windows XP is rock soild.

Linux?

Well according to the Ubuntu and Fedora forums people are pulling their
hair out with problems that never seem to get fixed.


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Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
> Linux?
>
> Well according to the Ubuntu and Fedora forums people are pulling their
> hair out with problems that never seem to get fixed.
>
>

Same can be said for Windows.

Each new release of Windows rarely fixes the problems in the old release
which really mattered. Instead, it piles more and more and more broken
features on top of what's already a bad mess.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:32:38 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> Windows XP is rock soild.

Does it come with a good working newsreader too, or did you find the
microsoft offerings shit and change to http://www.40tude.com/dialog/

On 20 Jul 2008 18:01:52 GMT, A J Hawke wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:32:38 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> Windows XP is rock soild.
>
> Does it come with a good working newsreader too, or did you find the
> microsoft offerings shit and change to http://www.40tude.com/dialog/

I'm using slrn.....

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