Ubuntu 9.10 oops!

This post will probably be a little more negative then the one I lost when my system just seized up and crashed.

Honestly to sum things up, I am having far more instability issues with the final release of Ubuntu 9.10 then I had with the final Alpha release I ran until the final came out.

I get repeated kernel oops crashes etc as my system resumes from suspend. After updating my system today my system froze and ultimately lost my first attempt at this post.

We really need to work on finding the sweet spot for releasing and building distros. We have not arrived yet.

I have watched my wireless go from stable in 7.10 to sluggish and unusable the next two releases and I thought finally fixed in 9.04. The regressions happen too much. This is unacceptable for production level systems.

There has to be a way to keep something stable yet incorporate new innovations in a timely manner. As I said we just have not found that sweet spot yet.

I think it would do us all some good to be realistic about where Linux as a desktop is rather then trying to speak excellence in to existence lets do more to make it a reality. The things that I tolerate with my Linux desktops would have put Microsoft out of business 10 years ago. That’s one of the weaknesses the Linux desktop still has. We seem to have given up on being honest about progress and resorted to saying we have arrived and that Linux blows away Windows etc. etc.

We need to stop talking out both sides of our neck.

When I started discussing some of these issues over the last year in forums and such, I was rebuked with answers ranging from “what do you expect it’s free” to “Windows is worse”. I have to say I can work for hours at a time in Windows without having media playback issues and the issues I reported here today.

I want to help make things better but I am at a state of learning in coding still so there doesn’t seem to be any projects out there willing to mentor a newbie or at least give concrete ansers to what I can do at my level of experience.

I know one thing until we admit where we fall short things will never get better. You know that whole thing about having to admit you have a problem before you can get real help.

Let’s start Linux Anonymous let’s be realist for a change.

Thanks for listening