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Sorry to hear you have problems Aaron.

FWIW I went to 9.10 a few weeks ago and I have not had any problems. I did have to re-do my initial tweeks for printer and sound issues - but luckily I had kept a note of what I had done :-)

Regards

Paul Tuohy
ComCon
www.comconadvisor.com www.systemideveloper.com




Aaron Bartell wrote:
Hi all,

Upgrading Ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10 has proven to be a hair-pulling experience for me. After trouble shooting for 6hrs I am still not able to boot into the latest kernel version from GRUB and instead am booting into a previous 9.10 kernel version which seems to also cause my sound and printer to not work (among other things) which means I have no Skype (something I use for business). This is my first "I can't seem to fix this" for Linux - took 1.5 years to get to it. Here is the issue for anybody wanting to know: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades#Unable%20to%20Load%20Linux%20Drive

Anyways, I am wondering what others are using for Linux desktops that don't screw you over if you choose to upgrade after a new version has had ample time to fix any issues. After doing some reading it seems Ubuntu likes to be more on the bleeding edge and I would rather NOT be bleeding or on the edge for my business desktop.
Bruce Hoffman mentioned Fedora as a solid choice on iWeekly last week. What do others recommend?

My application needs:
- VirtualBox
- JungleDisk
- Firefox (Flash needs to work well, no hacks)
- OpenOffice
- Pidgin
- SOAPUI
- tn5250j
- RPGNextGen
- Skype
- Filezilla

BTW, I am doing my best to resist getting a MacBookPro. I am in need of a new laptop, and now a reformat of my desktop, so I am highly tempted to migrate based on the many hours of consulting I lost.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/

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