Comments on: Why You Should Not Upgrade to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)

By: Terrance

Terrance — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:50:51 +0000

I own a ATI HD 4850 also but apparently it’s not working with Jaunty.

By: static soda

static soda — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:58:46 +0000

I should also add that people are still using windows 2000 and xp and old solaris boxes.

crap look at the amigas still operating.

Use what works. Quit trying to live Richard Stallmans dream of free. There is no freedom.

GNU is a license you are bound by (slavery)

It’s really like trying to decide between two busses both headed in the same direction. One with air conditioning and the other with heat. You’re going to get burnt somewheres and frozen at others.

By: static soda

static soda — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:54:33 +0000

Even Windows 7 won’t have drivers for most of these cards. Vista like Ibex will be a dropping off point for some. That’s how it’s always been. Unless you pay for the support or do it yourself.

People you just need to quit changing so much. Six months is not long enough to learn a system.

There will never be a perfect system.

You have to research.
Some Intel chipsets run better on the latest distribution of Ubuntu which is 9.10. Yet on ATI hardware there will be less support from the manufacture.

This is the problem with all computers and software.

There is nothing wrong with staying on 8.04 Ubuntu. You won’t get hacked or find a virus. Even 6.06 will operate just fine.

There are people out there running Slackware 10.2 still. Pentium II with 128megabytes of ram isn’t going to fly to the moon on a ubuntu 9.10 release. No mater how much hash torvaulds shoves in your pipe to smoke.

By: Dark Archos

Dark Archos — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:54:49 +0000

And I have Intel 945GM chipset. Everything works even my wireless card except for my laptop’s integrated mic.

By: Dark Archos

Dark Archos — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:53:11 +0000

That’s odd.. I have never had those problems that you guys have in Jaunty.. It’s working perfectly in my case.

By: Sigh

Sigh — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:51:17 +0000

Don’t ever upgrade Ubuntu the day it comes out if you want a stable system.

In fact, if you want a stable system, don’t even use Ubuntu. Windows may have its flaws, but at least you won’t spend literally all of your free time maintaining it. I’m so sick of the regressions I get with every release. “Freedom” is more important than usefulness, I guess…

By: Laos

Laos — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:23:19 +0000

And thats why NVIDIA is the way to go.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:36:30 +0000

I think you guys got the wrong cards for linux, and you’re blaming the wrong people. Id say it is ATI’s issue not Ubuntu’s. I have run Jaunty for the last few months now and have had no issues. I had a few minor crashes with various apps but nothing that I havent seen in windows and nothing that would make me call Jaunty an unstable release. I was running an nvidia card though, but I dont know what you guys are talking about with the price on the cards either, my 7600gt was like 60$ and my new 9800gt was like just over 100$

By: drachenchen

drachenchen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:24:21 +0000

Howdy.

I’m also frustrated with the Jaunty upgrade. It doesn’t help that Jaunty Jackalope is, IMHO, the coolest distro name they’ve come up with so far. -And they couldn’t even include any desktop wallpaper with an actual Jackalope on it? Sacrilege. I have an old ATI Radeon 800X on an Asus Mobo that runs a dual-monitor big desktop just fine in Intrepid, with either the open-source Radeon driver or the ATI Legacy one. I don’t need 3D eye-candy, and I don’t have the spare time to play games these days. I just need the screen real estate to, I dunno, maybe GET SOME WORK DONE. Like, instead of farting around trying to re-kluge Ubuntu’s kluges. -Which I don’t have time for right now, either. I thought that my days losing sleep trying to make things work were over when I ditched Windows, back around Dapper Drake. But no, they’re back! Jaunty gives me the “lines and bars” screen, also. Tried using the live CD to get x-org tweaked, but no luck. Only way I even got a 2-screen desktop back was to re-install Intrepid over my Jaunty root partition, and now I can’t get at my files in /home, because they’re under ext4! Good thing I backed up most of this stuff, and everything vital, but now I have to format home, and re-arrange ALL my virtual furniture to get a working system again–maybe? Note to the Ubuntu planners, and ATI bosses: you’ve got this temporarily poor boy dreaming about a MORE STABLE AND RELIABLE Linux distro, seen through a nice new NVidia card! WAY TO GO!

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