Lets face Ubuntu 8.04

[Qiuli Han]

I usually open 2 to 3 youtube pages at a time...

or this version of flash just hates 64 bit?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jim Rosser <jarosser06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How many pages do you generally have open when working with flash b/c I was
> listening to BOL the other day and they were saying the new version of flash
> only allows so many flash players open at once.  I believe the limit is like
> 14 or something but keep in mind that counts for all of flash including any
> flash adds that might be open as well.
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Qiuli Han <ivyharry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi gang,
>>
>> Lets face it, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is not as great as its last LTS on the
>> desktop, which was 6.06. It is not even as great as 7.10!
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit on my desktop PC since its release date,
>> and I am still experiencing a few issues after latest updates.
>>
>> 1. Flash player inside firefox does not work properly when more than one
>> flash player page is opened. the later opened one may not display the flash
>> content.
>> 2. Flash play will play first 4 sec without sound then stop if there is
>> another application needs to use sound (mp3 player). It may not only happens
>> with flash, i think some other application is also having this problem.
>>
>> 3. wine is not reading the fonts in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts <-- i
>> know it might be more like wine's problem
>> 4. not able to play back rmvb files by using mplayer. the codec seems
>> installed, but it is not doing the job
>>
>>
>> I can go on and on...
>>
>> My point is, I was not experiencing any of these issue when i was use
>> 7.10. I know some of them may need some tweaks, but i was able to make it
>> work.
>>
>> when i first install 8.04, i was surprised it ships with FF3 beta. I know
>> FF3 will be released soon at that time, but it is not a good idea to put it
>> in a LTS even though you are going to update it later.
>>
>> the new kernel, 2.6.24, is having a lot of compatible issue. For example,
>> VMware does not like that new kernel, some modules can not be compiled.
>>
>>
>> It might only be 64 bit's problem only, since i need it to see all my ram
>> without enable pae or hugemem. Or that is just my stupid configuration or
>> limited knowledge.
>>
>> I think, Ubuntu team should really re-consider using the newest software
>> package in the LTS release. The newest is not always the "best" in linux.
>>
>> I will re-install 8.04 64bit tonight to see if i can fix those issues i
>> listed. If not, i think i will go back to 7.10.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Q
>>
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