In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:27 +0200 <g6nngf$q0d$1@registered.motzarella.org>: > "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:37:55 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Linux 2.6.25.13 >>> >>> ,----[ Quote ] >>>| It contains lots of networking-related bugfixes, all over the map. Any >>>| users of the 2.6.25 kernel series should upgrade to this version. For >>>| details on the fixes, see the changelog entries and the diffstat below. >> >> >> But....... >> >> We keep hearing about how Linux *just works*.... >> >> Someone is telling lies. > > As you know I invest a lot of time in Debian Testing (Lenny). This > involves the occasional hiccup
Not occasional, if your friends are to be believed. The Ubuntu website in particular is populated all over the place with random crashes, freezes, and malfunctions on unspecified hardware. DFS in particular has been kind enough to annoy the hell out of us with links thereto, at most a week or so ago.
IINM, Ubuntu is a Debian derivative.
How are we supposed to tell which one of these reports are legitimate issues where a user is crying in his beer or other such beverage/drug of choice, and which are major porkies designed to sow FUD?
> but generally the SW migrated from > Unstable to testing works without causing major issues. What is > terrifying though is just which programs are so regularly updated and > patched and fixed. Core stuff like xorg-server, wpasupplicant, gdm, sudo > (!!) etc etc. Of course those of us in the real world expect SW to have > issues and get fixed. But the loons in COLA really should know that it > doesn't all "just work" and there is a hell of a lot of bug ridden > rubbish infesting Linux distros to this day. Its why things like > Unstable, testing and stable repositories exist in well managed distros > like Debian. > > As you said. Someone is telling lies. And I think we know who....
Yeppers. That's why Windows Vista was so bug-free the day of its release.
(It didn't stay bug-free long. :-) )
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