[nos-bbs] Ubuntu 7.X and JNOS 2.0 - maybe not ...

[Chris]

JNOS2 that I built on Ubuntu 7.10 seems fine.

The Ubuntu distribution supplied FBB is very buggy, crashes for me all
the time and freezes up the system nicely.  I haven't tried compiling
that from source yet as I don't really need FBB here.

URONode runs fine, compiled fine etc.  There may be issues with flexd
on Ubuntu as well, I forget what was determined there.  I got
sidetracked by the job and haven't been back at the packet in a couple
weeks.

There are underlying issues with the ax25 stack is my guess vs the
system libs as I have intermittent issues there.  It's really bad if I
up/down/up/down the ax25 layer on a single boot.  I'm too
inexperienced to give exact details, but there was something 'weird'
going on with ax25 vs my PK-88 in KISS mode.

If I bring up the system clean, bring up the ax25 stuff and leave it
alone, it's generally o.k. for me, but I haven't left it up for more
than 24hrs on packet duty so I don't have any long term experience to
share yet.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Maiko Langelaar (ve4klm)
<maiko at pcs.mb.ca> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
>  I get the impression that Ubuntu 7.X has some issues. I see alot
>  of posts indicating applications not working properly that should
>  be working, and that do work on other distributions.
>
>  I've had several individuals who's opinion I value fairly well, give
>  me a not so great assessment of Ubuntu 7.X as a platform to run JNOS
>  and even FBB on. Here is one such assessment from one individual :
>
>    There are an excessive amount of bugs with this version of (K)Ubuntu.
>
>    Unfortunately, the Ubuntu team doesn't feel that these issues are bugs.
>
>    What you should do is inform those on nos-bbs is that jnos is not
>    compatable with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and users who upgraded should
>    downgrade if they intend on using jnos.
>
>    You should see the problems with FBB and Ubuntu 7.10.
>
>  I'm not bashing Ubuntu, but considering the above points, if any of you
>  are running JNOS 2.0 on the later Ubuntu distributions, then the amount
>  of support I can give you will be limited, since I have no control over
>  system libraries crashing left right and center.
>
>  Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM
>
>
>
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