after 2 weeks of running ubuntu

[Matthias Heiler]

Steve Torrefranca <javacide at gmail.com> writes:

> After 2 weeks we were all impressed even the die hard debian guys.
> Unfortunately it freezes in all machines when:
> a. we mount DVDs with huge files.  This happens both when we mount DVDs
> in the middle of our gnome session and during boot-up with the DVD
> inside the drive (while nautilus is loading).
> b. randomly freezes when we upgrade kernel to 2.6.11

I made the very same experience (great user feeling, but freezes) with
a Dell D610 notebook.  It improved when upgrading to 2.6.12 from
breezy plus adding boot parameters ("pci=bios idle=halt").  There
still are annoying freezes, but they are bearable (about one freeze a
week).  

I'm using Linux since kernel 2.0.12 and my impression is: ubuntu
(kubuntu) is the nicest but also the least stable unix environment
I've used so far.