Ubunto 12.10 Probs
 

Just a heads up for anyone who has upgraded to Ubuntu version 12.10 from earlier versions. I have encountered problems with mounting USB memory sticks in the new version.

I'm not alone - Hopefully the bug will get fixed quickly.

Great Operating System testing from the Canonical group. !!!!

Delay updating if you do not want probs.

CAT III

CATIII:

Interesting. I installed 12.10 on my laptop and it discovers all the USB devices I've plugged in with no problem. Including a couple of USB sticks.

Did you do an upgrade or fresh install?

Ahem cough....

They have LTS versions of Ubuntu for a reason. You're always going to me more of a guineapig if you use the bleeding edge stuff (and Ubuntu has a tendency to be a bit of a guineapig's distro because they tend to prioritise growing the featureset over stability).

Alternatively, just download a copy of OpenBSD if you want stable with a capital S. Although if you're a child of the magenta line kind of guy, it might not be your cup of tea. :p

Mixture - Yes an over zelous person
 

Yes Its on my Acer aspire One - one much loved and very useful. it may be MK1 useritis - I've gone back to Ver 12.04 and every thing's functioning normally.

I'm by nature a grumpy "Person" and I felt a bit "sore" that such a bug ! had been missed.

I am am not a " A child of the Magenta" kind of guy - A very important video (and not just for Pilot's by the way, Engineers/Software developers Microsoft et al. ), my programming "Skills limited" go back to the PET or should I say "Wright Flyer II" - So I totally agree .

Its that itch to explore that killed the cat (and me) .- PS Cherokee 140- 2 Hours - C150 (Aero-bat) I flew it sideways, 2H and best of all ( T. Moth 55 Mins - The best machine designed by man or other life form)

[As a programmer, I was literally a "Rudder & Stick man" - Further edit[ RG it was an upgrade].

CAT III

Don't blame you for being grumpy, personally that's my gripe with most Open Source projects.....there's no shortage of people spewing out lines of code, but the QA tends to be a bit hit and miss (assuming any human QA goes on at all, many projects just try to automate QA.... and as we know.... GIGO).

That's why I tend to favour Apple products and their OS X operating system. A decent GUI, properly QA tested against the hardware.... and there's easy access to BSD behind the scenes for those times when you feel like writing some scripts.

Mixture
 

I have to agree with your comments about Apple. Only one drawback; and thats cost.

PS I do like many OS programs - DigiKam is a good example.

Oh only if Canonical would just stick to doing what they used to do well. OK well before "Unity" - Mint beckons me with its relatively trouble free implementation of Linux.

Thanks

CAT III

Upgraded my old netbook yesterday (in-place upgrade, not a reinstall), but it seems fine so far. The default mount points have changed to /media/<user>/<device>, but I've tried two devices so far and both are working. One is an old USB key, one is a new Philips MP3 player that acts as a USB drive.

The upgrade process did reinstall more stuff than I wanted, including things I'd previously removed (LibreOffice, apport reporting, zeitgeist logging), but I'm so used to customising systems to my taste that it's no biggie.