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on Saturday October 25 2014, @02:41PM
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
A grave bug has been introduced into the "wine" package of Debian Jessie, just days before the November 5th freeze deadline. The /usr/bin/wine launch script fails with an "error: unable to find wine executable. this shouldn't happen." message.
Debian has already suffered much unrest lately over the inclusion of systemd, with threats of a fork being issued, along with the possible cancellation of the GNU/kFreeBSD port and the possible dropping of support for the SPARC architecture. After so much strife and disruption, can Debian afford to have such a serious bug affect such a critical package so soon before such a major freeze?
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Wine Fails to Launch under Debian Jessie, Just Days before the Freeze Deadline
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Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday October 29 2014, @06:25PM
I can crash my Chrome install almost on demand. I switched back to Firefox because Chrome was crashing a few times a day. Sometimes a few times an *hour*. On the other hand, I can go months between crashes with Firefox. There's only one website I've encountered that causes Firefox to crash, and it only happens if I leave that site open for several days. I'm not going to name the site, it's one I use private browsing for ;)
Of course, in a couple months I'll probably hit some snag with Firefox and go back to Chrome. I tend to switch browsers every few months, although Firefox has been working well since Australis. I don't get why that gets so much hate either -- that and Cyanogenmod are the only things I've ever wanted enough to install a nightly build!
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday October 29 2014, @07:01PM
Interesting experience. Chrome has been pretty damn stable for me and this is on multiple systems. AMD, Intel, Windows 7, and Linux. It always works. The only issues I had was the updater crapping itself every once in a rare while but it just fixed itself. One thing to add, I always close Chrome every few days. Not purposely, but after a while I don't have a need to keep it open and I close it.
I think the main allure that got me hooked on Chrome early was the minimal UI and HTML 5 (no more flash for youtube).
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday October 30 2014, @01:07PM
Yeah, it's actually only on my work system that Chrome does that, but it's damn annoying. After using it for a while it'll enter a state where damn near any link I click causes the whole browser to crash. For some reason I suffered through that for at least a month before finally switching to Firefox. I do use Chromium along with Firefox on my home system and that doesn't have the same problems, although I don't notice it being any *more* stable than Firefox either.
I do suspect part of the problem is that I rarely close my browsers. I even have Firefox in my initrc file. And I have them remember the previously open tabs, so even when I close (or crash) the browser there are still tabs that I've had open probably since I bought my computer (gmail for example). I actually do this with most programs though -- once I open Kate or Chromium or Dolphin, they're not getting closed either until I need to reboot! :)