Comment 34 for bug 159594

The frequency of the crashes is increasing again after a low-crash period. Lovely pastel death this morning.

Right now I have to regard the machine when running under Ubuntu as unsuitable for any serious work (unless the working program includes a Gmail-like remote backup every few minutes). This problem now goes back at least two major releases, and we're about to enter a third. I sure hope it goes away--but I can't be optimistic. I have been unable to diagnose or fix it myself and unable to help anyone else do anything about it.

I think I understand how open source works, and I even work in the food chain of one of the companies that is a big contributor to open source, especially Apache and Eclipse. We even have an in-house Linux distro that I use some of the time (and don't like much). However, I personally am *NOT* in a position to do much to help you here. Back in my programming days I was just a database programmer. I did a bit of assembly-level hacking, but I was never much good at it. I do think a serious hacker could probably pin this bug down. I don't have a reliably trigger, but the frequency is pretty high...

Unfortunately, it seems that there isn't a serious hacker using Ubuntu on these models of Sharp. As the situation is, I'm actually considering buying a new machine to get away from the problems with Ubuntu. I've also been experimenting with other distros, but haven't found any that I like as much as Ubuntu, so I'm feeling like just throwing money at the problem... (I already have several personal machines, and many others at work, but this Sharp with the AMD Sempron CPU is the only egregious troublemaker.)