Viraj's Weblog

I've decided to ditch Debian Testing on my home desktop system. Im tired of downloading 200megs of updated packages every time I boot Linux. It was turning out to be very risky, because many times some package would break. I thought it was fun, because I would have the challenge to figure out how to fix it . Tonight I just got fed up. This particular instance resulted in my MySQL database not starting:

Jan 12 22:41:27 localhost mysqld[1607]: 050112 22:41:27 [ERROR] bdb: unable to initialize mutex: Function not implemented
Jan 12 22:41:27 localhost mysqld[1607]: 050112 22:41:27 [ERROR] bdb: process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented

Debian Testing is changing so much it's just not worth it for me. I think Stable is the only one to run, and that is better for servers, not desktops. I'm going to switch to Ubuntu Linux. I've heard good things about it, and it is based on Debian.