Fixing bugs: how distributions react
Two weeks from today, the next version of Ubuntu should be available for download; the scheduled release date is April 24. A few significant bugs still remain and it would be interesting to see how one, in particular, is tackled.
This bug is one which was first reported in September 2006 - the high frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard drives which could lead to premature death of the drive.
I asked the Ubuntu project about this bug and also four others - keys getting stuck (observed when using Compiz), the inability to reactivate wireless when certain systems are booted with the wireless kill switch activated; when the disk checker fsck fails, the machine tends to reboot and start checking again; and the clock applet chooses the wrong time zone for many cities.
I asked the Debian project about the first bug - the high frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard drives which could shorten the lifetime of the disk - as I have observed this on my own laptop which runs the testing stream of Debian. I have been using a fix involving hdparm but wanted to know what the project was planning to implement.
Both projects replied promptly but there was some difference in their reactions.
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