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Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) – My Thoughts So Far

Posted by Joe in Linux, Ubuntu on March 21st, 2009

As I’m sure plenty of you are aware, Ubuntu 9.04 is due to be released in little over a month’s time. Testing is in full swing (Alpha 6 at time of writing), and the beta should be coming in 2 or 3 weeks (that’s a guess on my part, please don’t hold me to it!). I figured it was about time to try and install it, partly because I’m interested to see how well it currently runs on my dual-head setup, partly because I need to write an article on installing it for Linux Identity ;)

So – I popped in the Jaunty Live CD, got to the boot menu. All is going well so far, I expected it to not boot though due to my graphics card (Nvidia 9500GT) and a Dual-Screen setup….ok I’m on the desktop (that was quick!). My dual-screen setup was detected just fine (with both monitors at the correct resolution no less!) I was already impressed just from that. I had a play around, and it took me all of 5 minutes to decide that I wanted to give it a proper try out, and to backup my home and install it properly.

1 reboot later, past the (in my opinion) great new GDM theme and nice new splash screen, I’m logged in, installing my nvidia drivers (180.xx) as recommended by a little pop-up. After that install and reboot, I get compiz effects working great, as well as an extended desktop – awesome!

After a bit more playing, I have the dust theme installed (it’s come a long way since I last used it), as well as having emesene using the new notification system (which I have to say looks great!). I’m also running on an ext4 based system, and so far – all is well. Hopefully I’ll have more to say when the beta is released, but this is running on my main desktop, so it’s getting plenty of use :)

UPDATE:

I’ve got to say, after using jaunty some more this morning, one thing struck me…it’s REALLY quick. Boot is way faster than 8.10 and running general. Shutdown is quicker too :)

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Ubuntu 8.10 – My Thoughts So Far

Posted by Joe in Ubuntu on August 24th, 2008

I know it’s only Alpha 4, but I decided to install it on my laptop last night because I can, and I had nothing else to do.

So far so good, it’s got to be said! There’s a few issues I’ve noticed though, these are:

  1. gvfs-trash errored out on first boot, doesn’t seem to work
  2. gnome-power-manager did the same
  3. Shutdown from the shutdown menu doesn’t work
  4. Keyboard shortcuts don’t work

Now I can’t really comment on the first 2 because I just sent off the error reports and then I got no more prompts…or running applications ;) Though shutdown is an odd one, I have the button on the far right of my top panel, and under the system menu. Trying to shutdown or restart from either doesn’t work at all. I hope this gets fixed soon, until then I may added a launcher to my panel to shutdown instead;)

Keyboard shortcuts is a pain, I have a keyboard shortcut for the terminal, but it doesn’t work :( So I tried changing it to a different key combo – still no dice. It’s a shame, it’s only now that I’ve realised how much I used it. I hope this also gets fixed really soon, so I can remove the terminal icon from my top panel.

Other than that I’m really enjoying the Intrepid Experience so far. The “newhuman” theme has grown on me quite a bit. I actually quite like it now, I was unsure at first. Also Compiz works great (cube deformation & 3d windows have been added to my features). On Ubuntu 8.04 running 3d Windows made my laptop grind to a halt…smooth as anything now :D I’m happy!

I’ll post more thoughts after Alpha 5, Beta & RC etc. :) Until then – have a screenshot or 2

UPDATE: Thanks to this comment I managed to get my terminal shortcut back – so thanks for that :D I still think that’d be classed as a bug though.

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