[LAU] Ubuntu Studio 9.04 Hard Lock Ups...

Ronald Stewart ronaldjstewart at gmail.com
Wed May 27 21:41:09 EDT 2009


just not seeing that on our build of 9.04.

but I agree with Lee about sticking with 8.04 if you can.

Thank you

Ronald Stewart
Creative Director
Trinity Audio Group Inc.
9854 National Blvd. #322
Los Angeles CA 90034
310-733-9285
ronaldjstewart at gmail.com


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM,  <jk at jasonkahn.net> wrote:
> > my question: is there some reason to move up to
> > ubuntu 9.04 or to use ubuntu studio at all?
> > re-configuring a vanilla 8.04 (with real-time
> > kernel, etc) was very easy (and i'm a fairly
> > low-level linux user). i would suggest this route
> > if people are having so many problems with ubuntu
> > 9.04.
>
> In my experience 9.04 is a step backward in stability from 8.04.  My
> work desktop was up for 121 days before I upgraded.  Within a week I
> have had an X lockup that required a reboot.
>
> In my case I suspect the new open source ATI driver, previously I had
> used fglrx.
>
> The main reason to upgrade is hardware support.  Many wireless and
> sound chipsets work a lot better in 9.04.
>
> I upgraded for the "native" Exchange support in Evolution which is a
> complete joke - it crashed as soon as I entered my Exchange
> username/password and hit  "Authenticate" :-)
>
> There is no reason to upgrade unless you have a specific problem with
> earlier releases which is definitely fixed in 9.04.
>
> Lee
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