[PLUG] Mint 14 Xfce issues

C W elcaseti at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 19:21:27 UTC 2013


These STS (short term service) releases tend to have more bugs than LTS
releases.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:34 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:48:27 -0700
> Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> dijo:
>
> >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:36 PM, John Jason Jordan
> ><johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:28:22 -0700
> >> Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> dijo:
> >>
> >>>Have you found the gaping security issues yet?
> >>
> >> No, but I did find the gaping video bug in Ubuntu.
> >
> >Its actually an upstream bug and the only reason its not affecting
> >Mint yet is because Mint is shipping older packages.
> >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47288 indeed its
> >affecting both Ubuntu and Fedora
> >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61287 but is not a Ubuntu
> >or Fedora bug.
>
> If Ubuntu uses a video package that's known to cause X to lock up,
> then it becomes an Ubuntu bug.
>
> But thanks for the information. I'll make it a point to refuse any
> video updates from Mint Xfce.
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