When I sign into Pidgin everything goes just fine, I can even receive messages.
However, if I attempt to respond or send a message Pidgin closes entirely and others report me as signing off.

What the fuck?

12/29/2007 10:34:50 AM

You gave up on Ubuntu?

12/29/2007 10:42:20 AM

after the update that shit was way unstable

I was checking for greener pastures... and I suppose I have been disappointed

I've decided to update Pidgin to the latest version
for some reason it wasn't updated as part of the update I ran last night

[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 10:52 AM. Reason : -]

12/29/2007 10:52:40 AM

try Slackware, quit playing around with those imitations

12/29/2007 11:51:19 AM

I just want a god damn stable distro

I need it to have wlan, a decent web browser, an IM client and multimedia support

thus far shit has been, at its best, as stable as my old bootleg XP install
with notably less stability in OpenSuse 10.3

sometimes it doesn't shutdown properly... it hangs on reboot (might be a hardware issue?)
I can't get full multimedia support, Pidgin doesn't work (as I said)
and sometimes no programs will even launch... it can take 3-4 reboots to get a working desktop

12/30/2007 11:24:30 AM

Have you tried Fedora 8? I've been real pleased so far with it's stability and performance after dealing with the mess that is Ubuntu 7.10.

12/30/2007 2:40:38 PM

I just want a god damn stable distro

Slackware.



I need it to have wlan, a decent web browser, an IM client and multimedia support
wlan can be tricky, is it a laptop or desktop? If its a laptop you may need to fart around with ndiswrapper, once you get it working you can make it work during boot.

thus far shit has been, at its best, as stable as my old bootleg XP install
with notably less stability in OpenSuse 10.3


sometimes it doesn't shutdown properly... it hangs on reboot (might be a hardware issue?)
yeah.. might need to turn acpi or apm off. laptop correct?

I can't get full multimedia support, Pidgin doesn't work (as I said)
and sometimes no programs will even launch... it can take 3-4 reboots to get a working desktop

pidgin works fine for me on slackware. The programs that wont launch, are they ones you installed manually?

12/31/2007 7:17:28 PM

the only distro worth wasting time on is one of the red hat derivatives. RedHat, CentOS, or maybe fedora. I've used redhat enterprise/desktop and I know they work, same with CentOS. Haven't tried fedora, but i imagine its the same.

I always hear people bitching about how redhat sucks for some reason while their shitfest distro is crashing left and right. Instability is a part of open source software. The best you can hope for is that someone with atleast half a brain will develop a core distro and build packages around it with a standard set of technical and design goals. The closest you're going to get in that respect is redhat. SUSE was a piece of bloated shitware before novel bought it and based on their history i doubt its changed much.

If you really want stability and functionality get an OS by a real company like microsoft or apple.

12/31/2007 8:38:27 PM

lol yeah.. we ALL know how stable MS products are

12/31/2007 8:44:22 PM

if you're too stupid to use windows you probably aren't smart enough for linux. The only people with unstable versions of NT are either pirates or incompetent.

Hurrr i downloaded all these cool mouse cursors!

Wait why is my computer full of spyware! I didn't do anything! Mikkkro$$oft this is your fault!

12/31/2007 8:48:01 PM

Thats funny.. I've been running Linux for 10 years and can get FAR more done in Linux that POS MS.

I figure if you're too fucking stupid to run Linux you stick with MS.


NT HUH? who the FUCK still uses NT in a server environment? People too fucking stupid to use computers at all.

12/31/2007 8:50:46 PM

versions of NT meaning NT from 3.5 to 6.0. 9x was pretty bad. But even then I have NT 4 based phone switches with years of uptime.

Linux is great if you like sub par desktop software or you want to run a cheap server. Its great for web servers and light database work, but anything really important I wouldn't trust to it unless you have someone really knowledgeable writting custom code.

Its a total joke as a desktop OS. I'd rather use OSX.

12/31/2007 8:59:47 PM

Having used Slackware, RHL, RHEL, Fedora, Suse, Opensuse, etc. I still have to say that Ubuntu 7.04 would be the way to go.

12/31/2007 9:09:38 PM

Solaris 10 ftw

1/2/2008 9:11:32 AM

did you install pidgin through the software management database thing? or did you download it?

1/2/2008 9:18:17 AM