Journal jawtheshark's Journal: Long Term Service? 7
In April 2008, I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 8.04. I don't use my laptop all that much, it's mostly an experimental platform to fuss around. My wifes computer is a WinXP machine that is kept stable, so we always have one machine purring as a kitten. Anyway, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and one bug quickly became apparent: mounting a Samba share in Nautilus wouldn't work. That's a frigging huge bug. I'm mean epic proportions.
I didn't follow up the bug, and kept on using ssh for my file transfer needs. I mean, I don't need Samba
Fast forward today... My parents machine is Ubuntu 7.10 and that's obviously not supported. having some spare time, I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04LTS. I knew about the bug, and that's 6 months ago. Ought to be fixed by now, right?
Well.... NO! How is that possible? Such a major bug, in a long time support release still not fixed. I don't get it. At the fanbois on slashdot claiming that their computing needs are 100% met with Ubuntu are obviously lying.
I thought, well okay, let's give 8.10 a try then. I launch the upgrade and then it tells me that my graphics card won't be supported in 8.10. Oh, come on! It's a GeForce 440MX. Nothing fancy, but not exactly top-of-the-line.
Ubuntu... The Linux Vista.... *sigh*
So, I daren't ask... Does anybody know how to mount Samba shares in Ubunto 8.04? Sure, mount -t smbfs
Long Term Support means security bugs (Score:2)
The idea behind long term support is that the distribution remains exactly the same, but security bugs are fixed. Not being able to mount a SMB/CIFS share in nautilus isn't exactly a remote exploit. You could check the Backports collections to see if someone has backported [ubuntu.com] a Nautilus version without that bug to 8.04 but with the interdependence of all things Gnome, it's not likely. Though... if your problem is inability to browse passworded shares (computers show up in the network but nothing is there wh
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Well, we seem to have different views on "critical bugs". For me a critical bug is anything that stops me from doing normal daily tasks and that includes interacting with Windows machines. Imagine that OpenOffice wouldn't open Microsoft Word files in a major release.... That's the same thing.
Anyway, your findings match my research from yesterday. It isn't fixed in 8.10 and the NVidia driver for 8.10 is in the "proposed" branch. So for the moment, it's better to stay on 8.04 because there I only have on
Ubunt 8.04 sucked (Score:1)
Their bug fixing, though, has always been bad. I've had simple string change bugs that didn't get fixed because they're always working on a newer version. It sucks.
Count on bugs in a release to stay there forever. I recommend you go with Debian.
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I should have.... I decided to go with Ubuntu because it really seemed polished when I tried it. The rough edges are alas hidden a bit and only pop up when using it day-to-day.
Debian, on the other hand, would have taken a lot more time to install, but so much easier to maintain. *sigh*
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Kubuntu (Score:1)
Oops, wrote this out then realized it sounds really preachy and offers advice you didn't ask for. Oh well, it did solve a bunch of problems I had with Ubuntu. :).
While this doesn't directly solve your problem I switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu around Feisty and everything works much smoother. I don't have a "free" fetish so there was no agonizing about that.
In Hardy I used the graphical package manager to install the samba server. From there it is as simple as right clicking on the folder, getting to the