On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Joseph S wrote:
My small gripes about Ubuntu are: 1) rpm, for all its faults, is still better than using apt
This is drfiting off-topic for this list, but this statement is so odd I can't let it go unchallenged. You must have some odd criteria for "better" or run into something quite unusual, because it's rare one finds people suggesting a preference for rpm over apt. I've spent countless hours of my life stuggling with rpm over the last decade, and it's only recently using it has become a more bearable situation due to better dependency tools such as yum. apt is rarely hard to deal with. I'm sure you've got a story as to how you decided rpm is better than apt, but I wouldn't agree and I think you'll find it a difficult opinion to defend.
2) It doesn't include xen support like Fedora does
Ubuntu has had Xen packages available since the 6.10 release: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenVirtualMachine
But my big gripe is that it won't let me run 32 bit apps on my 64 bit system, which means a lot of firefox plugins don't work.
32-bit apps not building/running correctly on a 64 bit installation is not a problem limited to Ubuntu; it's an equally messy problem on all Linux distributions, and the workarounds for each are similar. On the topic of Firefox plug-ins:
Fedora/RHEL: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-flash-java-realplayer-under-64bit-firefox.html Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1174435 -- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
