Yes of course I have respect for the devs work as well, i just think
that the time they spend working need to be better organized or the
development/bug teams need better organized.

I too am running Mandriva 2008 on note toshiba, it is a great distro
and only has a few things im not fond of. I built a new intel quad
core and am running gusty on here, everything works fine with the MSI
P35Neo2, ati card and the quad. I am about to try alpha six on the
Toshiba, I hope it works but i still think I may stay with mandriva at
least until hardy is a few months old and some bug are worked out of
it (we all know there will be bugs, let just hope they get them fixed
this time).

I think you could be right, none of the devs use Toshiba notebooks.
But honestly Toshiba notebooks are some of the most common laptops on
the market so they really should find someone to help test :)

Asus notebooks are great, i almost bought one a few months ago. They
make one (not sure the model) that has 2 separate HDD's totaling
320GB. The one thing i would watch out for is all the dolby
stuff...that is sure to cause problems with driver support (i would
think). Another option you have is an MSI notebook....these are sweet!
i would love to have one. Toshiba as far as i know has no plans on
supporting anything linux in the future, they are a "windows only"
company just like you already know. When i bought my notebook I didnt
really have the intention of running linux on it, even though I
already did on my desktop. I would suggest to anyone that is buying a
laptop for linux use NOT to buy Toshiba and if you have a shiny new
one try to sell it and get something better. Ill tell everyone right
now that a company that does not "support it users" (running what OS
they want) i will and no one else should support. On top of this I
have had really big problems with Toshiba customer support...i just
really dont like this company and dont plan on buying anything from
them ever again...just how i feel though.

sorry to bitch and ramble, i have to do it somewhere :)

cheers,

nate :)

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Luis Suárez <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Nathan...
>  Personally I've switched to Mandriva 2008.1 (cooker) the development branch.
>  I really love this distribution and it's almost sure that I will not change
>  it anymore (unless ubuntu comes with something very very decent IMHO).
>  However, Ubuntu for me is like my mother and father, I alwasy come to it
>  :).. I can hate it sometimes but I love it so much... I have 10 GB of my HD
>  just for testing one distro at a time.. in this momment I have Ubuntu and
>  I'm kind of happy (just sort of) but I think the Devs are not getting
>  motivated by us (toshiba users).
>  If I'm disapointed?... Yes, of course!!! You wouldn't believe I'm still
>  using dapper in 2 machines 'cause edgy and feisty don't like those boxes...
>  but that's not a real problem because dapper is a LTS distro and I will
>  stick to it until it's dead..
>  if Hardy is going to be LTS (which I believe it will) and if this distro
>  likes my machines... I WILL install it on'em (off course)... and will
>  continue in ubuntu forums, even if I don't use it, .. that does not mean I
>  don't like it.. I will continue promoting it... it's a fantastic
>  distro...and the most important thing... if Toshiba continues with their
>  "Only M$ Softwre" Policy.... then my next laptop will be a Lenovo or Asus
>  ... then I can play with 3 or 4 distros at the same time...
>  I do not think that Devs give a damn about us... what I think is that they
>  don't use toshiba laptops... and in the other hand... 6 months from one
>  release to rnext one, seems to be too much for them... I know that the
>  technology is running very quick, but still I think they can implemnt new
>  changes in the same distro.... for me.. they simply go too fast that they
>  don't have time to release a "stable" version.. At least since 5.04, which
>  MO has been a very stable release, I've not seen something better.
>
>  Cheers
>
>  Luis
>
>  PS.. Devs, there is nothing personal against you, in fact I have a lot of
>  respect for your work
>
>  2008/3/15, nathanlanham <email address hidden>:
>
>
> >
>  > mandriva, gentoo, centos, and many more are great options. I always
>  > say im going to switch but for some dumb reason i come back to ubuntu.
>  > im testing alpha 6 in the morning...maybe it will be better (doubt
>  > it). also im not to keen on this new authentication process thing in
>  > hardy...like i said before it feels like user account control on
>  > vista.
>  >
>  > Luis, you have been in this bug report since the start. are you as
>  > disappointed as i am in how this got treated? im not saying we are
>  > more important than anyone else...but come on...a little help from the
>  > devs would at least show they give a shit about their users.
>  >
>  >
>  > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Luis Suárez <email address hidden>
>  > wrote:
>  > > Two new sentences I've learned today...
>  > >
>  > >  "Extra Stable release".. and Status: Incomplete => Fix Release ...LOL
>  > >
>  > >  PS.. not even "pure" Debian or Fedora, Mandriva, Suse are Extra Stable.
>  > and
>  > >  I have the same issue with Alpha 5 with the jack connector... this is
>  > >  incredible but I was assuming this was a hardware problem but it's only
>  > >  happening with ubuntu.
>  > >
>  >
>  > >  --
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > toshiba p100 series dsdt acpi error no sound, works with acpi turned
>  > off.
>  > >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136469
>  > >  You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>  > >  of the bug.
>  > >
>  >
>  > --
>  > toshiba p100 series dsdt acpi error no sound, works with acpi turned off.
>  > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136469
>  > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>  > of the bug.
>  >
>
>  --
>
>
> toshiba p100 series dsdt acpi error no sound, works with acpi turned off.
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136469
>  You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>  of the bug.
>