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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: jj on March 24, 2010, 10:55:37 AM
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http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1
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I am using it a few days already. Runs nice & smooth so far even though it's a beta. And finally my broadband USB stick works without much fiddling.
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I installed the amd64 versions last night. Now my pc is not the fastest amd 4200+ x2 with 2 gig of ddr1 400mhz ram. But from grub to logged in and useable system , about 5 or 6 seconds. Take that windows
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Yes, boot speed has reached Amiga level. :-) Overall speed is impressive aswell. Windows crawls in comparison...
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If it is that fast, then i should at least give it a try!
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i have install it in my aspire one. it's just a 9.10 version with different colors!
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i have install it in my aspire one. it's just a 9.10 version with different colors!
Not really. Lots of stuff has changed under the hood.
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1#New%20features%20since%20Ubuntu%209.10
Plus, it's an LTS version.
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Yeah, I only bother with LTS versions. When the release becomes stable, I'll probably upgrade.
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Due out april 29th :)
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I heard they were focusing on boot speed but thats very impressive indeed!
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I never cared about bootup speed because I never turn my linux computer off, it almost never needs a reboot. My uptime monitor is reading 4 months right now, and thats only because of a power failure 4 months ago.
Still I'm glad to see someone addressed what many consider a problem.
This distro is making great progress into the desktop area, its probably the most popular distro now. I stick to vectorlinux because I grew up with it, but even I am considering switching because their repository of installable programs is ridiculous. If I switch, I will probably never have to compile or
fudge around to get anything I want installed and usable nearly instantly.
One thing I would say though is that its UGLY stock, Orange and brown yeech... I know, I know, you can customize it with thousands of themes, but that first impression is yeeech.
Steven
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ah what the hell. Just updated and I must say, from a cursory glance, it looks really slick.
Looks like they are really taking on OSX in terms of being user friendly, and a lot of focus on social networking stuff and "everyman" computing
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One thing I would say though is that its UGLY stock, Orange and brown yeech... I know, I know, you can customize it with thousands of themes, but that first impression is yeeech.
Steven
Well, you might say the same about blue and orange, but I digress. It takes all of 2 seconds to change the appearance of gnome :)
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Well, you might say the same about blue and orange, but I digress. It takes all of 2 seconds to change the appearance of gnome :)
And yet STILL looks amateurish!
KDE 3 and Mandriva Linux and its fork PCLinuxOS looked great, and then they all switched to that monstrosity known as KDE 4 * sigh*
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That's a matter of opinion. I actually quite like gnome. You can reconfigure gnome's appearance a lot more than the standard GUI interface options allow for, provided you don't mind editing the config files directly.
Totally agree about KDE4 though. It's just so damned awful I'm lost for words. 3.5 was quite nice.
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I run ubuntu on a few machines, but this release is not looking that great in many respects. Cosmetically I think it is one of their weakest releases yet, but more importantly no time has been spend on important things such as the raid subsystem, so lucid will ship with the same old version of mdadm as karmic (~18 months old) and many other problems related to the raid. No problem if you don't use software raid, but if you do, you are currently better of with debian testing or another linux distribution.
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I have been running Ubuntu as my main OS since 8.04. I just installed the developer version of 10.04 and have to say there are some nice speed improvements that are noticable. also, some glx errors seem to be better and overall system reaction and operation more stable..
when the stable release is out it is certainly a viable alternative to OSX and Windows7. Both my gf and 75yr old father use it daily and love it. When I was using windows for a week for project they wanted ubuntu back... (my gf runs vista on her laptop btw)
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I never cared about bootup speed because I never turn my linux computer off, it almost never needs a reboot. My uptime monitor is reading 4 months right now, and thats only because of a power failure 4 months ago.
How many local-root exploits ago is that? :laughing:
Seriously though, Ubuntu, Debian and all dont update their kernels just for giggles, refuse to reboot when new kernels are installed and you might very well end up with someone else also enjoying your nice hardware ;)