Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Fiff. between 8.04 and 10.4 and Firefox!!

There are many good reasons to stick with LTS over regular release.
Stability is one, but so is reducing the frequency of upgrades from one
every six months to once every three years. Remember than many OSes done not
provide free upgrades and when they do come along it is less often than
every six months. Upgrades are iffy. Things can and do go wrong. If someone
is happy and it isn't broken why fix it?

Upgrades do have advantages, but you can offset them by enabling Backports.
That way you can have your cake and eat it too.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, dbneeley <dbneeley@gmail.com <dbneeley%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> From: dbneeley <dbneeley@gmail.com <dbneeley%40gmail.com>>
> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Fiff. between 8.04 and 10.4 and Firefox!!
> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 12:29 AM
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>
>
> First, why would you be going with 10.4--is the "long term support"
> important to you? If not, I'd go with 10.10--each time, they seem to get
> better with most hardware detection and support.
>
> Second, with my old HP laptop, I had seemingly endless trouble with
> wireless. It seems the network manager app has difficulty with WEP
> encryption, especially when it is an ASCII password. The first thing I did
> that worked flawlessly on that score was to remove the "network manager" app
> and install wicd--which worked like a charm.
>
> Later, I went to WPA2 encryption instead, and have had no trouble with
> network manager--plus, of course, it is more secure than WEP.
>
> As for your mouse--I take it you have a trackpad as well as using a mouse?
> At times, the two can conflict. If you're going to use the mouse anyway, try
> disabling the trackpad and see if the problem goes away.
>
> David
>
> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> gerald bishop <orangetruck38@...> wrote:
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> >
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> > TKS for the help- read another post that said to keep the network
> unplugged while booting - Also doesn't like a mouse for more than a day-
> What worked yesterday may not work today., 8.04 wasn't like this-
> Slowly,think I'm getting it Buit this today !!??<G> Jerry
>
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