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Ubuntu...I love you, I hate you

 I have been working on seeing if a .NET 3.5 application will port over to Linux, Ubuntu to be specific. I started with version 9.01, then 9.10 and now 10.04 as I find more and more that I need from Mono. I have a dual boot on a dev box, Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

An upgrade from Ubuntu 9.01 to 9.10 caused my mouse and keyboard to lock up. 

I was able to boot from a 9.10 cd. Then, I upgraded to 10.04 as I needed Mono 2,2. Upgrade worked, lost my windows boot though. it seems grub somehow jumped in and messed up the windows boot.

After Googlign liek crazy and trying this and that, these 2 links finally got me my windows boot back:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Boot_Sector

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

So, I am now thinking about trying SuSe instead as I hear\read it's more stable. I think a lot of my pains have been related to learning and getting use to Linux.  

 

 

 

 

 

Posted: May 12 2010, 03:11 PM by gregarobinson | with 5 comment(s)
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# May 12, 2010 4:22 PM

Jonathan Oliver said:

We've had great luck with Fedora.

If you're looking for something a bit more stable, but where you might be required to compile a package (such as Mono) from time to time, you may want to try CentOS or even Debian 5.

# May 12, 2010 6:11 PM

Regie Burnett said:

Let me save you some pain -- http://www.virtualbox.org

# May 12, 2010 10:21 PM

safknw said:

Doing a clean install is most preferred way to install newer version of Linux.

# May 27, 2010 1:30 AM

Ron said:

SuSe would probably have better Mono support, considering their both managed/developed by Novell. Ubuntu 9-10's upgrade process has been problematic they changed their start-up and have deviated drastically from other Linux operating systems moving to upstart and scaling back on what their build into their kernel increase boot time and performance.

You pretty much have to do a fresh install of 10.04 in my experience.

But Debian, SuSe, or CentOS are gonna be your best bet, if you want the latest and greatest build of mono for testing Debian or SuSe would be the easiest/quickest to build and deploy from.

# September 20, 2010 12:17 PM
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