"IF it aint broke..." re: was Skype on 8.10

[Stephen Kawamoto]

George Borusiewich wrote on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 at 18:16:51 -0500 in
Message-ID: <4963E663.7030200 at sympatico.ca :

"It is with interest that I have been reading about the problems with
Skype on ubuntu 8.10. I don't have a solution to the reported problems,
but I do have an observation. Why do we chase after the  latest version
and newest release  of  Ubuntu\Suse\ Debian\Mandriva\etc. when the old
version works just fine?  I used Ubuntu 6.04\6.10\7.04\7.10 with
complete satisfaction. Ubuntu 8.04 gave me a problem which I tried to
solve for 6 months with no success. Switching to Linux Mint 5 solved my
problem. When Linux Mint 6 arrived, I installed it. Problems again. I
reinstalled Linux Mint 5, and my problems disappeared. "If it ain't
broke, don't fix it."

This is why when 6.06 LTS came out I stuck with it, given that the HP e-pc uses a Celeron P3 @ 933MHz, and my new computer, the Dell Optiplex GX60, the P4 @ 2 GHz.

Though, after 2.6.15-29, especially since 2.6.15-52, the rt73 source needs to be recompiled for kernel updates in order to keep connectivity through wireless.

But, overall, I doubt if the Intel bios on the HP and the Dell bios are ready for 8.04 LTS, which is why the e-pc will stick with 6.06.2 using the 2.6.15-53 kernel and the GX60 will Microslothing it with XP SP1.

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