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01-19-2008, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: E.U., Mountains :-)
Distribution: Debian, Etch, the greatest
Posts: 2,561
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Is Ubuntu buggy distro ?
Hello,
I could read that even in the last version of Ubuntu, the presence of unsolved bugs are remaining.
What are the opinions of linux professionals ?
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01-19-2008, 06:16 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in Ubuntu and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
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01-19-2008, 09:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: North America
Distribution: Kubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn
Posts: 296
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Every operating system ever has unsolved bugs, period.
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01-19-2008, 09:16 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04, Debian testing
Posts: 5,019
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True. FreeBSD even has one that is more than twenty years old.
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01-19-2008, 09:48 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Fresno CA USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10
Posts: 1,466
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Just looking at the total number of bugs isn't as meaningful as you'd think. Many bugs most users will never even notice. Some are not reproducible. Divide the number amongst the 20,000+ packages and realize that many of those you will never use. Also consider that some bugs are documentation oriented. The high priority show stoppers without any work around are the ones to worry most about. What counts is your ability to be successful using the system. Ubuntu has nothing to be ashamed of.
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01-20-2008, 09:11 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS
Posts: 515
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I've been running Ubuntu since version 6.06 and so far, I've never encountered a bug that made the system unusable. Their xorg team has been criticized for not testing their updates enough, but myself and my friend have never had any issues with their updates.
Run it and see what happens. I don't think you'll get any serious issues with it.
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01-20-2008, 09:40 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Denver, CO
Distribution: CentOS, Debian
Posts: 825
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I used to run slackware on a couple machines and that was definitely less buggy than Ubuntu. But I would say that mostly "bugginess" depends on what you're doing with it. I'm running Ubuntu on a laptop, with Gnome, a desktop, icons, notification area, wireless, 3D video, bluetooth, etc, etc. So there's a lot more going on. Most of the bugs I've run into have been related to suspend/hibernate, or 3D video, or one of the other pretty complicated things.
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01-22-2008, 06:19 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Indpls
Distribution: Laptops: Debian Jessie XFCE, NAS: OpenMediaVault 3.0
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Has no more bugs than anything that comes out of Redmond, thats for sure. I've never had a bug prevent me from doing something I wanted to do. Been happily using Ubuntu since Dapper.
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01-22-2008, 12:42 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: E.U., Mountains :-)
Distribution: Debian, Etch, the greatest
Posts: 2,561
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It always depends on what kind of things one does with Linux.
There might impossible things with Ubuntu in the way more server and complicated directions.
Good that linux and Ubuntu developments are in open source ; everyone of the community takes profit!
Last edited by frenchn00b; 01-22-2008 at 06:03 PM.
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01-22-2008, 03:49 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 191
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Hello
I'm using Ubuntu and some of the OS-es from errrr... thing...errr... what was his name again, you know, the marketing guy from Redmond. His systems are buggy too. But the Ubuntu bugs get solved.
Bye
Koen Plessers
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