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I'm currently running Ubuntu Dapper Drake(6.06). I did it just to try it out, and I don't really like it. Here's another reason:

I needed to go with at least kernel 2.6.18 because of support for my pcHDTV card. (I didn't compile my own driver because compiling stuff on Ubuntu has tended to break things, and this was no exception.)

I thought it was a kernel bug. I got 2.6.19, patched it all the way to 2.6.20rc5 and tried them all.

Then, after even more Googling found out that it was the EVMS package that's screwing things up. It's somehow making /dev/hdb3 available, but unresponsive. I was getting "is already mounted or ... busy"-type errors.

/dev/evms/hdb works.

So I just mount /dev/evms/hdb3 and the like.

I don't even know why this only affected hdb, but not any other drive. If you stay with all Ubuntu packages it works fine, but add anything else and weird stuff starts to happen.