[cw-discuss] compatibility with ubuntu 8.04

[Liz Young]

On Thursday 17 April 2008 02:21:19 pm Mike D wrote:
> just to close the loop here, I wanted to thank everyone for the info. 
> After thinking about it a bit, I probably am going to install the OS
> cleanly. Hopefully getting the wireless & VPN (pptp) stuff to work again
> will be easier the 2nd time around!  I put /home on its own disk partition,
> so that will stay, but '/' will go bye-bye.
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, A.C. <ac at sonic.net> wrote:
> > It appears to - I'm running the beta release of Kubuntu 8.4 and my
> > Outlook / Word installs behave the same as they did in 7.10.  I can't
> > speak for games as I don't run them on this system but so far everything
> > appears identical to previous Kubuntu releases.
> >
> > I hope this information helps,
> >
> > A.C.

FYI, I hit a bug with Crossover 6.2 on Hardy (Kubuntu):
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=613958
-- where Office 2000 apps would crash shortly after launch.

The workaround fixed it:
$ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12516

-Liz