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9.10 + 0.94 = ……

24 Feb

Sorry for the Mathematical title ;) As you’ve undoubtedly guessed – I’ve upgraded to Lucid, a.k.a 10.04!! So far, from what little time I’ve been able to use it, I’m really liking what I see (I’ve installed the 64 bit version, for those curious). Naturally there are some bugs, but I’m reporting these using the built in tool if/when they occur.

One thing that did frustrate me (immensely), while trying to install Lucid, was the partitioning situation. I wiped my Ubuntu partition(s) completely, including my /home and everything. I decided before installing that I’d make backups of the important stuff, and go from there. Somewhat frustratingly, the partition manager mid-way through ubiquity decided to give up the ghost and die. Not a problem, I thought, as I downloaded the daily live CD, I’ll just install from here….no go – the daily live CD was showing exactly the same issues as the Alpha 2 disc.

Before I ditched my attempts to install Lucid and drop back down to Karmic (9.10), I figured I’d try running GParted, and create the partitions before running ubiquity. Good job I did! This worked fine, without any hitches. Naturally I think I should’ve been able to specify my partitions as part of the ubiquity installer, but at least it’s installed now! More on my Lucid thoughts as I get any experiences to share with it.

 
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From ‘U’ To ‘X’ & Back Again

11 Nov

I’m sure it’s not too difficult to guess what this post is about!

I tried out Xubuntu the other day, and I really liked it. So much so that I decided to remove my standard Karmic install, and replace it with the Xubuntu Karmic…sadly, this only lasted for about 3 hours because of a couple of issues which I couldn’t deal with. They may seem small, but all too often it’s the small things that make all the difference.

For example, I wasn’t able to configure the panels with my dual screen setup the way I wanted (panels/primary monitor on the right). No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t get it to work, though in Ubuntu, it’s very easy to configure. Secondly was just a number of interface issues where I couldn’t configure it to the way I wanted. It’s a shame, I really do like Xubuntu, I think it’s frequently under-rated by a lot of people.

In all, I think I’ll probably try it again for the Lucid (10.04) release, and see how we’re getting on :)

 
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Karmic < 2 Weeks

13 Oct

Is it bad that I’m getting excited?

I always look forward to the Ubuntu releases, I don’t know why, I’ve started running the pre-release from around alpha 5 or alpha 6 so I know pretty much exactly how it’s going to be. Though I do plan on seeding the torrents again for at least 2 weeks :) So as soon as the .torrent files are there, I’ll be grabbing it to seed, though limiting because I don’t want to hog all the bandwidth on the VPS!

Other than that plan, I’m hoping to get more involved in Lucid Lynx (10.04) if I can, and if I can find the time. But right now, I’m happy with Karmic, it’s shaping up to be an awesome release, and I’ll most certainly be mentioning it to those people who say “Linux just isn’t ready yet”, I think we’ve come a surprising way in 6 months, and a HUGE step from when Ubuntu first started those short few years ago.

And as I did with Jaunty – I’ll be posting my seeding stats after around 2 weeks, just to share, it’s always interesting to know how many people use(d) torrents as opposed to straight http/ftp downloads.

 
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