How Stable Is Tribe 5?

[Bongo5HH]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

ok now it's working.

WOW

the application switching thingy is AWESOME!!! How often am I doing research.. while typing having to get my hands off the keyboard to grab the mouse to switch windows.. wow!!



Kev

[dibl]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

you like a good challenge, don't you?

Yep, and I am getting one today! I've been going 'round and 'round with VMWare Player v.2, and I think maybe it's got me cornered now. It appears that I need something called glibc, for which all we have in the 64-bit repo is the documentation. Drat! I guess I could install the older VMWare Player that is in the repo -- probably doesn't matter for my Win XP purposes, but I kinda hate to toss this many hours work out the window!

[disturbedite]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

i think tribe 5 is pretty stable and i've been using it since it started. (when a new [final] version is released i do a reinstall then upgrade to the new testing release). but if anyone hasn't now, i'd just wait, tribe 6 is gonna be released on sept. 6th.

[Bongo5HH]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

Running Compiz, while very cool, SEVERELY diminishes the stability of the system.

I had to go back to kwin today to get a commercial done. I wasn't really stressing the system all that much. 6 tracks of audio I think. 5 of them were mono 1 stereo... so not a big project. At one point all the hardware settings in Audacity went back to defaults - could be an issue with Audacity being beta.

But I found the system very unstable, things locking up and such. I've found that Konq with Compiz running is more likely to freeze the computer (much like Windows) than it is to actually start.

Kev

[Fintan]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

@dible: I don't know if this will help you but you can read something about vmplayer v2 and kernel 2.6.22 here:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...=704430#704430

maybe they can point you in the right direction.

sorry I am not 64bitting so I can't of more help

[ubersoft]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

Tribe 5 is really stable considering it's alpha -- but that's the important part. It is still alpha. Currently Mozilla Thunderbird crashes every time I try to view a message, Kmail choked trying to import my thunderbid account, and my bluetooth monitoring app crashes every time I log in.

[Fintan]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

Currently Mozilla Thunderbird crashes

Which if any add-ons do you have installed?

[dibl]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

@dible: I don't know if this will help you but you can read something about vmplayer v2 and kernel 2.6.22 here:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...=704430#704430

maybe they can point you in the right direction.

Thanks Fintan. I had found and used that thread to get past my initial challenges with it, but then ran into some missing C library files, that apparently come with the glibc package. That package (nor the individual C library files that are called out in the VM Player error) are not in the Gutsy 64-bit repos, so that was the end of my adventure. I think it is needed to allow the 32-bit VM Player to run in the 64-bit environment. They were very clear that Gutsy is not yet supported, so I took my chances and made my discovery. Thanks!

[Fintan]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

Dible : You are of course very welcome. I guess it is back to the old waiting game?

I think I know why I am sticking with 32bits for the moment and let the 64bit pioneers like you do all the hard work

[Bongo5HH]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

It is sorta crazy... we have these incredibly fast 64Bit processors... but none of the 64Bit OS's are really good for the average user yet.... we're what 5 years into 64 bit now? Seems like we should be there by now to me... but I'm good at complaining.

Kev

[dibl]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

I still have my Ubuntu Feisty 64-bit installation, and there is an older version of VM Player in that repo, so I'm fine to run my little "Bill in a Box" Win XP session.

But, the funny thing is, the documentation package for that glibc package is in our Kubuntu Gutsy repo! That makes me think that there's been a late-breaking bug found in the package itself, so they pulled it, but left the documentation. Hopefully they'll have it back to us in the near term.

Other than Adept acting a little flaky (not a shock ...), my Gutsy 64-bit installation seems reasonably solid. They really did a nice job with Amarok, as far as pulling in the codecs when you need them -- that's a very nice improvement for average users.

[thedevilsjester]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

glibc is in the libstdc++ package.

[dibl]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

glibc is in the libstdc++ package.

Aha!

Thank you very much -- gotta go install libstdc++ now!

[thedevilsjester]

Re: How Stable Is Tribe 5?

It should already be installed, I doubt you can have a modern Linux system without glibc, practically _everything_ depends on it.

Are you trying to install a package from a non official repo?