I’m tired of having to reboot my MacBook Pro entirely because the SL client has locked up the machine or de-stabilized the graphics driver so bad it looks like an IBM PC CGA display from 1991.

I have put in a support ticket and not gotten a response at all, someone there @ LL is asleep at the wheel. If I continue to get zero response from people @ LL, I’m going to take my support issues and in a polite and very professional way (no sarcasm) send it off in a registered letter to each member of the Board of Directors @ LL - maybe someone in executive management can teach their subordinates how QA is done.

It’s quite obvious to me (and I’m a fairly seasoned UNIX admin / minor programmer myself) that the LL clients have two problems - the video driver stability, but more importantly I see evidence of single-threaded coding in the client software, which tells me that @ LL, too many coders are Windows or Java coders who only think that way - it’s a real shame, and probably also a sign of the times in the marketplace.

I can’t get over I’m probably going to have to run Linux in a Parallels instance on OS/X to -maybe- get some SL stability. Ridiculous.

Other highlights of this fiasco:

- On Windows / OSX, the client crashes immediately when trying to open up a Friends conference.

- Opening up a media stream in laggy zones hangs the client, and in most cases, the entire OS in OS/X. Hello? Multi-threading?

If anyone asks me to upgrade to 10.5 to fix this I’m going to politely tell them : “That works with Windows users.”

PLEASE, LL - START LISTENING TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

Yessssss

This is Awesome ..!!
Thank you all LL developers for taking care of us Linux users .

Keep up the great work

“@Tracy - Happy - perverse though it may seem - that the latest Windows client is a disaster, I thought they’d just screwed over Mac users. I crash 3 - 4 times per hour on Mac OS Tiger since the second to last release of the client.”

Well I didn’t mean to imply that I’m happy Windows client stinks. Just that the Linux client is quite nice.

“Unfortunately I run Linux and Windows in virtual machines, which makes it impossible for me to move to the Linux client for the moment One more incentive to dual boot with Linux on my MBP, I guess.”

Actually, and nothing against virtual machine software (love it), the best way to configure for duel boot for longer term work is to not mess with the main boot track records during installation. Two identical physical drives partitioned to your needs is the best way. One drive for
your Linux installation, one drive for your windows keeping the boot records separate on both drives. Then merely set up your bios to boot
to the Linux drive grub boot track. All you have to add to your linux to
boot windows is the following:

su root
vi /etc/grub/menu.lst

Add this:
———-
title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
#makeactive
chainloader +1

This will boot your win drive via the grub prompt without having issues that you might encounter with the boot track sector on a single drive installation and serves purpose to allow for individual drive backup. This is how I set up business machines for duel boot.

Udo Says:

@Tracy: Graphics? You mean Photoshop? That runs like a charme with the newest version of wine ( Google paid for it ).

I’ve used wine for years and never been happy with it. Photoshop is a great program, have it, okay with it, but I’ve been using Ulead PhotoImpact for 10 years and am quite good in it. It’s now owned by Corel. The output filters have been hugely improved. Thus the need for winblows for graphics.. I’m just not good enough in Gimp (which I am a fan), to use it as of this date.

-Tracy