Re: Ubuntu = Crapware
  By: MIKE POWELL to ALL on Sat May 06 2006 01:19 pm

 > Well, you can remove me from the Ubuntu believers camp now.
 > 
 > The day before I really need the damn laptop for something, Ubuntu tells me 
 > has updates.  So, I look them over & let them roll.
 > 
 > Well, one of the updates was a new kernel, which it said it needed for
 > security purposes.
 > 
 > Now the damn thing won't boot... not with new kernel, not in
"recovery mode,
 > not with old kernel.  "Kernel panic."  Yeah, it ain't the only one.
 > 
 > So basically it did a real fine job of autoconfig-ing itself when installed,
 > but once it came time to update the kernel, it "Windowed" me.
 > 
 > I know some wise ass is going to suggest that I compiled it wrong, but I
 > didn't do anything except let it install a "security
update."  It did it all
 > itself, and now won't even boot so that I can try to fix it.
 > 
 > What's worse is that the damn thing does not give you a proper root account,
 > or even properly-working su capabilities (and the
"destuctions" on their www
 > site to do either are not correct), so there is not much that can be done
 > but a full re-install, just like damn windows.
 > 

Hi Mike,

Dude, that sucks.. I've only installed Ubuntu on an imac and used the 
bootable version on a PC, but I keep hearing such good things about it.  
Red Hat (before they went Microsoft on everyone) used to do kernel updates 
like that, but they installed the updates into the boot loader so you could 
go back to older ones f the newer one didn't boot.  That blows if Ubuntu 
doesn't do the same.

I'm pretty comfortable with Slackware, and though I'm curious to try 
Ubuntu, Slack has done me well.  

Sam


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