A lot of machines will refuse to install because the enumeration of
drives issue. And there's a file indexing daemon that misbehaves. And
xorg always gets the resolutions and screen dpi way off. And hard drives
get reset so frequently the machine not only runs slower, it wears the
drives out from parking and resetting so much. And the new screens and
monitors tool and beryl-compiz consolidation is so incomplete it
shouldn't be released. Those are just the issues that I tried to deal
with before I gave up with 7.10. I'm imagining 8.04 will be better
because they are going for a long-term version and will be trying for
stable(plus all the complaints about 7.10 must make it to the core
developers eventually).

Cheers,

Bob

Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On 12/2/07, Bob Blick <bbblick@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> And avoid Ubuntu 7.10 completely, for any computer, it is horribly buggy
>> even if you have a machine it will install to.
>>
> 
> Care to share the bugs of Ubuntu 7.10? I did notice the crash of
> Firefox. Then I installed Opera. Unfortunately it crashed once
> already after less than one hour of use. Opera seems to be
> stable under Ubuntu 6.06 LTS so far (even though the default
> Firefox 1.5 crashed relatively often).
> 
> Still it is much better than FreeBSD 6 Stable branch
> (6.3 Beta 2). Firefox is almost not usable under it (crashed
> from time to time). Then again it is a beta. Under
> FreeBSD 7 Current (7.0 Beta 3), it seems to be better.
> 
> And it is also much better than Fedora 8. It won't boot
> after the smooth installation. And it seems that multi-bugs
> are involved.
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=171223&page=9&pp=15
> 
> One minor bug I found is that under Ubuntu 7.10, PICkit 2 will
> be claimed by the XBOX gamepad driver xpad. This only
> happens in the Ubuntu version of kernel, not the vanilla
> kernel.
> 
> Xiaofan
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