WIth ubuntu 8.10, I've had a problem with Pidgin sound and pulse-audio creating a huge memory leak. But settinng pidgin to use Alsa solves that. That's about the only problem I've had with any of my hardware. Xubuntu is a stripped-down implementation, and that may be part of your issue. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Stephen wrote: > I had no stability issues with 8.10 well none that I didn't create > > On 1/23/09, Jason wrote: > > If you're finding a lot of distros freezing up, you may be looking at a > > memory issue in your computer. > > > > Be sure it's the distro and not actually a hardware issue. > > > > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:48 -0700, leegold wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm finding Xubuntu 8.10 to be unstable. A lot of people on this list > >> seem to be into Fedora disto - I'm downloading the iso now. It's ashame, > >> Xubuntu feels wonderful - but it acts weird, things freeze and crash. My > >> theory is that there are so many distros that the quality of the > >> programmers is spreading thin...I don't think it reflects on Debian, I > >> tried the desktops based on freeBsd which is rock solid and fast. But > >> those distros where unstable too. Slackware desktops had problems too. > >> > >> Lee G. > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com