Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed 164
tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware just posted an interesting review of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It includes an expanded set of OS benchmarks that they also performed on the previous LTS release (8.04), to see just how much the mainstream Linux distro has progressed in two years."
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (Score:5, Funny)
Better than the previous version: Ubuntu 10.03 Irrational Lynx
Maybe the most irritating thing (Score:3, Informative)
To fix that:
open console or press ALT-F2
type "gconf-editor"
go to "apps->metacity->general"
edit the key "button_layout" to "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
No longer get nerved by the changed layout.
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Hear hear.
I switched away from Ubuntu when they decided to pull this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/431091 [launchpad.net]
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same here, yesterday i installed Fedora 13 on my main machine, together with a lovely intel SSD. Havent had much time to try it all out, but so far it is really snappy.
i do have my ubuntu 9.10 partition intact, but if all goes well that will get blown away in a few weeks i imagine..
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Dastardly Dick.
Then for the comming releases i suggest 'Malevolent Mutt' and 'Prevalent Pidgeon'
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Actually it's maverick meerkat.
Lucid Lynx (Score:1)
Upgrading in place from the previous LTS? (Score:5, Interesting)
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I upgraded from the last lts all the way up, but I did it as they come out. It worked for me. Mind you I was running Lucid alpha, I like to stay up to date.
Re:Upgrading in place from the previous LTS? (Score:5, Interesting)
That is a recipe for tragedy. The operating system itself upgrades perfectly well, but the GConf schemas are subtly incompatible and the GNOME people couldn't care less about solving this problem. If you're going from Hardy to Lucid I highly recommend a nuke-and-pave install and copy your homedir from a backup, without any of the dotfiles.
I had a great deal of mysterious behavior on my laptop that was upgraded to every Ubuntu release since Hardy, and all of that stuff disappeared when I reinstalled and got rid of all my dotfiles.
I do something similar... (Score:3, Interesting)
But it's a little bit in-between.
I do a fresh install, but maintain my /home partition as-is. I make my regular username my default root-accessible (via gksu/sudo) one, but then once I've installed, I create a new user named after the release (hardy, jaunty, lucid, etc.). Then, I log into my default account. Using the icons on my desktop, I then install my non-standard apps (audacity, gimp, vlc, easytag, nicotine, etc.).
Once I've basically got my computer up to where I was before, then I log into my version
Well, for my purposes (Score:2)
it suits me just fine.
To be honest, I'd be happy with just keeping the home drive as-is - it's never given me issues (except in Amarok where every upgrade or so it would reset my library... that's what I get for using KDE apps... back to rhythmbox for me!). The only issues I ever got was when I just repointed my repositories to the new distro and upgraded that way.
Only reason I go through the hassle of creating the new user is because I want to check out what neat new features have come in by default.
That's
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However, I have another system running Hardy, as my MythTV system, that I'm hesitant to upgrade as the "do-release-upgrade" program wants to install all the "recommended" software, meaning 850 more packages that I don't want or need (like GNOME), even with the "-m server" option. I
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but do ANY of the Gnome/KDE folks use more than one machine? Because I do, and my home directory can be used on any number of different versions of Gnome/KDE and distros.
Can't these guys figure out a way so that if I log into machine X, it doesn't bork the menu system because it has a config from machine Z?
WTF?
Hello, this is only a capability Unix/Linux has had since 1986/1993!!
Yeah, yeah, I could write it myself, but what are the odds I alone would get
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I upgraded from 9.10, and I left the "Notification area" in place but removed the "indicator applet". It works quite well enough as it is.
I tried using indicator applet, but I don't want that envelope either, I use webmail already. It's a common complaint, I don't doubt, but the Ubuntu folk aren't about to listen, so we solve the problems ourselves.
P.S. Regression: can't switch pointer schemes away from "default pointer". I'm going to go look to see if that's already on launchpad.
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Yep, big upgrades suck. I did that a few years ago with Ubuntu. I don't remember what versions either. I rebooted, and it hung. :(
I use Debian, and I can do upgrade parts. Even dist-upgrade work.
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You don't need to go that far.
You can simply remove your .gconf directory after the installation (of course, you will need to use the text console, or another window manager that handles updates more gracefully).
I personnally remove .gconf* .gnome* .gtk*, just to be sure.
...or you could just use 'gnome-cleanup'. (Score:2, Informative)
There's a tool for this; it's called 'gnome-cleanup':
DESCRIPTION
gnome-cleanup erases all GNOME user preferences, returning
the user to the default look and feel. This can be used to
undo undesired preference settings, or to correct the desk-
top if the preferences become corrupt. The GNOME preference
files are automatically recr
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You can't get to there, from here (Score:2)
Since the only major performance improvement is from going EXT3 -
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i'm no EXT expert, but isnt EXT4 basically EXT3.1? perhaps it is possible to upgrade a partition in place to EXT4 (might require unmounting etc..)
This is probably far beyond the average ubuntu-user, but a small automated script on next-boot could handle this...
As for forgetting about 8.04 users, ubuntu is like that, short sighted bastards...
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Since the only major performance improvement is from going EXT3 - EXT4, there's no point in even trying an "in place" upgrade. It's a gaping hole in Ubuntu's release and something you'd'a hoped someone would have considered. I wonder why they forget about us 8.04 users?
Since most of the performance benefits of ext4 can be had by mounting ext3 as ext4, I wonder why you're bitching about this when it would take less time to edit your fstab?
Nobody forgot about you, there's no tool as yet to convert an ext3 fs into an ext4 fs. And even if there was, if it failed they'd have summoned satan all over your data, and alienated everyone who is allergic to backups. Better to just force the issue. If you have an external hard disk larger than the partition you have to remake, it's fa
Re:Upgrading in place from the previous LTS? (Score:4, Informative)
Yes.
Cupsd will utterly fail.
you need to re-issue....
sudo apt-get install --reinstall cups
to get it working again.
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you were lucky. 7 out of 7 pc's I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 had this problem. All did use HP printer drivers... This could be a cause. All I know is that there is a LOT of people on the net that have the same problem. and it's a brain dead simple fix.. force a reinstall of Cups.
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I did this with no problems. However, I did it on a "server" type machine so I didn't have to worry about X, GNOME, etc.
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I upgraded, using the Alternative install CD. There were a couple hiccups - the biggest of which is that my Slickness Black theme is somewhat borked. I don't need or want a "colorful" desktop, since I'm colorblind. Purple? That's my very last choice of a color scheme - can't tell purple from violet from lavender, or any other blue-red blend. But, the system works fine. I was surprised that the upgrade downloaded a few hundred meg of data during upgrade, despite the fact that the CD image was mounted,
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If you do not understand what you are doing maybe you should learn a little about what you are doing first?
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Yes, you are perfectly correct. An operating system that doesn't hold the hands of the incompetent will never earn any market share. Kinda like manual transmissions - if it can't do all the work for the mindless zombie, it won't sell.
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An operating system that doesn't hold the hands of the incompetent will never earn any market share.
Irony: no operating system to date can or ever will do this without a Fisher-Price GUI.
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Lets assume a machines lifecycle is five years. It used to be more like three but machines lifecycles have got stretched in recent times.
With windows the manufacturer usually installs the latest version unless specifically requested not to. Given that microsofts lifecycle policy promises 7 years of security support overlap between releases and that third party app vendors generally support older releases (it's only in the last few years that i've seen apps dropping support for 9x and 2K) it is quite practic
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You need to familiarize yourself with Grub2 and the Grub2 boot disk. All that you had to do was to reinstall Grub2. Please, let me draw your attention to the fact that I said Grub2, and I did not say Grub. There is a difference. Beginning with Karmic, Ubuntu uses Grub2. No need to nuke an installation because you put the boot loader in the wrong place.
A solid review (Score:5, Insightful)
I never read Tom's any more, but maybe I'll start. I appreciate that they tracked down the cause of a performance regression between Hardy and Lucid. The only other site that routinely benchmarks Linux distributions is Phoronix, and those guys are prone to just throwing weird results out there with no explanation. The number of inexplicable, unrepeatable benchmark results posted over at Phoronix is huge and ever-growing. This benchmark from Tom's is much more useful.
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Phoronix is great for information and their benchmark suite is excellent but, I agree that their benchmark results have to be taken with a grain of salt. I actually have a feeling that the reason their benchmark results are so dubious is actually *because* they have such an easy, automated benchmark suite. They just run the benchmarks, it generates a webpage and they annotate it. Some of my specific gripes with their benchmark results are:
1) Declaring a winner on very small margins. Unless you are activ
It's working quite well under VirtualBox (Score:3, Informative)
I have four Guest Instances of 10.04 running alongside 9.10 under VirtualBox 3.2, no problems to report. You can see the difference especially in responsiveness vs. 9.10 in terms of app startup, system shutdown/startup and the GUI is definitely more polished. I did like the old "Human" motif better with 9.10 but for what I'm using it for, it's been solid.
Linux Mint derivative (Score:2)
I'll wait until Linux Mint [linuxmint.com] makes a release based on ubuntu:
I've been recommending it to friends as a nicer, friendlier, greener (yes, it's also Irish) Ubuntu that is not shy about providing support for proprietary video drivers and Adobe flash out of the box.
mint green > aubergine
I still run Debian testing on my primary box, though.
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Ha, I didn't have to wait long... Linux Mint 9 (based on Ubuntu 10.04) came out of beta last week. And I've still been installing new machines with version 8 since then :-P
Well, thanks for the reminder!
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It's a feature complete clone of Ubuntu.
(This means the answer is yes, and I don't have to look it up to find out either)
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The Windows installer "Mint4Win", which is a fork of Wubi, is included on the Live CD and allows Linux Mint to be installed from within Microsoft Windows. The operating system can then be removed as any other Windows software using the Windows Control Panel). This method requires no partitioning of a Windows user's hard drive. It is only useful for Windows users; it is not meant for permanent installations as it incurs a slight performance loss.
You were reading about the hardy mint version. It's there, just a different name.
Reset Gnome (Score:5, Interesting)
After a couple of weeks, I did something that made my bottom panel disappear. I couldn't get it back, so I deleted my
Also (Score:3, Informative)
Last Advice (Score:3, Interesting)
My last bit of advice is to watch the video on YouTube from gotbletu [youtube.com]. He has tons of Ubuntu how-to videos. He's slightly profane, but very informative.
Intel 3D performance (Score:2)
Given the recent work on the integrated Intel graphics drivers it would have been nice to see some benchmarks. My impression is that it is better, but it would be nice to have some numbers.
test until it makes sense. (Score:2)
i like how they just fucked with it until the unigine tropics benchmark finally made sense.
like the average person is going to know anything of the nvidia driver version and tweaking the compiz fusion config.
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the antithesis of the "out of the box" experience test.
if 8.04 had been given a thorough optimization, it would have been faster too.
Hope they fixed sound (pulseaudio). (Score:1, Informative)
On my laptop the headphone jack sense was broken in 9.04 (jaunty) in various ways -- the internal speakers wouldn't mute when the headphones were plugged in or sometimes the internal speakers would go from muted to on after listening with headphones for ~10-20 minutes. IIRC from the help forums, there was a problem with how the developers built the package. I couldn't be bothered to try compiling the sound system myself since I could get by not needing realiable sound. Anyway, I'm looking forward to trying
Intel Video Finally Working Well (Score:4, Interesting)
For the last several releases, Ubuntu has dealt very poorly with Intel video cards. Now to be fair, this isn't entirely their fault; they were impacted by the switch to DRI2, GEM, Modesetting, etc. However they haven't handled it gracefully. I have three systems -- HTPC (Dell Studio Hybrid), laptop (Lenovo SL400), and a netbook (Acer Aspire One) -- that use the i915 driver, and both 9.04 and 9.10 were horrible (no 3D acceleration, poor 2D performance, etc.). In fact 9.10 (and possibly 9.04) required me to pass a kernel parameter to disable modesetting (i915.modeset=0) to even get to a GUI to install.
I realize there were workarounds and hacks, to get reasonable performance from the Intel cards with the previous two releases, but nothing I found seemed simple or fully addressed the issue. This was largely due to some of the fixes requiring newer kernels and since Ubuntu isn't a rolling release distro, that would make fixing things much more difficult. My personal laptop (T400, also with a i915 video card) runs Gentoo, and I had fixed all the Intel video issues several months earlier.
Fortunately 10.04 seems to have gotten everything back to working well again, and hopefully all the changes will be worth it in the future.
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Actually there were some last-minute commits that screwed up those of us with Intel "Ironlake" graphics. Users of the ThinkPad X201 unfortunately need to pass kernel parameters to the live cd and must patch their kernels to make the installed system work.
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My Acer Aspire D250 (GMA950) went from working (without compiz) on 9.10 to overheating and locking up all the time on 10.04. From where I'm sitting, Lucid breaks intel video. I actually went back to XP on that machine because Ubuntu has never provided a satisfactory experience, and still doesn't. Also, I would like Ubuntu to stop trashing the ATI video built into the R690M chipset in my Gateway netbook, but I don't know if there's any distribution that works properly with that hardware. I may have to revert
Insanely impressed with this release. (Score:5, Informative)
#1 feature that has me blown away: full iPod Touch/iPhone support in Rhythmbox, without jailbreaking. Seriously, this was the one thing that kept me from buying an iPod touch for so long... I eventually decided to just bite the bullet and find _SOME_ fix that works... ultimately going with just using iTunes within Virtualbox. But then I hooked up my iTouch after upgrading to Lucid and was about to go launch Virtualbox and test that was still working fine... but saw my iTouch, with its designated name, listed in Rhythmbox....
I'm sitting there going, "No.... they didn't...." so I try to drag one of the songs in my library over to my iPod.... and boosh! They did!
Only problem I found though was that when I moved a couple tracks over that had "Unknown" as album title, it actually made everything else with "Unknown" as the album title inaccessible on the iPod. seems though this only has to do with stuff that was added via iTunes... so if I remove the song and then re-add it in rhythmbox, it's perfectly fine.
It's a bit of a weird bug, but easily worked past, and now means that I no longer need to keep going into Windows/iTunes to load stuff onto my iPod. Great jerb!
Also, while I'm not a _huge_ fan of the new default theme (window control buttons on the right pls) I did end up picking one of the new themes that suited my tastes, and I honestly am not looking back at all. I keep saying this every time I upgrade, but best linux yet.
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I still have a problem with this. While RythmBox supports copying files to/from the iPod just fine in this release, it doesn't have a sync function. If you want to move a file from the computer to the iPod, or vice versa, then it's a drag and drop afair.
Better than nothing, but I still prefer being able to plug in the iPod before I jump in the shower and have all my music purchases from the night before as well as any new podcasts transferred over before I dash out the door for work.
That feature alone is
For the record (Score:2)
That feature is set on a device-by-device basis. If you set it not to auto-sync on the first time you hook up your device to iTunes, then you can actually pull music from ANYBODY's library, not just your own.
But yeah, I always used that feature, so the Rhythmbox interface works just perfectly for me.
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window control buttons on the right pls
gconf-editor
apps->metacity->general
button_layout=:maximize,minimize,close
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er sorry, make that :minimize,maximize,close
And then log out/in or restart X or whatever.
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I don't see why Gnome must necessarily hide this sort of stuff in an obscure gconf setting. It's almost like Microsoft and the obscure registry settings.
In KDE, you right-click the title bar->configure window behavior->windows->buttons, and you can drag all the standard buttons and a few extra (sticky button, on top button, keeb below button, etc.) around the bar.
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Agreed. Also if they're going to arbitrarily change something like this, after many many releases with it on the other side, they should present a dialog to let the user configure it during installation / upgrade.
It's not that it's hidden... (Score:2)
It's just that nobody's programmed it to be user-friendly yet.
Welcome to OSS. Don't like it, rewrite it.
Lynx Browser (Score:1, Offtopic)
Last time i checked, gmail is the only major web site that works with Lynx. I make all my AJAX web applications Lynx compatible, and you should too. Any word on when lynx is going to support Java applets or Flash swfs? I can't wait until they release Duke Nukem Forever.
Very nice release (Score:2)
Hey (Score:3, Informative)
I've noticed it to be running a little faster than 9.10 did, on my Lenovo IdeaPad S10... so... looks good :) And this is with all the bells and whistles turned on.
Everything is relative (Score:2)
It beats the hell out of XP and that's good enough for me. Thank you, Ubuntu, you've made two aging/underpowered machines suddenly useful again.
I use the Kubuntu 10.04 version instead (Score:5, Interesting)
Being somewhat nervous about upgrading, I kept my old version of Kubuntu 9.10 and installed a fresh clean copy of Kubuntu 10.04 onto a different partition. That way I knew that I could always go back to my older version, if I needed to.
I am one of the few people who insists on using different wallpaper for each of my virtual desktops. After installing Kubuntu 10.04, I had trouble figuring out how to get it to allow me to use different wallpaper for each of my virtual desktops. The way to enable doing that had changed since Kubuntu 9.10. I eventually found how to do that by clicking "Settings," then "System Settings," then "Desktop," then "Multiple Desktops," then checking the box for "different activity for each desktop." After doing that, I went to each virtual desktop and right clicked on a blank portion of the screen and then selected the "Desktop Activity Settings." I chose my favorite wallpaper from there.
I don't care very much what default software they include with Kubuntu, since I know what programs I prefer and can quickly and easily download and install them for free from the official Ubuntu repositories. There are hundreds of free Linux programs available from the official repositories. I prefer to use Synaptic to download those programs, because it is an easy to use point and click front end for apt-get. I have not yet tried using KPackageKit instead, which comes already installed with Kubuntu. When I first installed Kubuntu 10.04, I used apt-get to download the Synaptic package manager, and then used Synaptic to install every other favorite free program of mine.
I have been happily using Linux on the desktop for about 10 years now, but, I am not a computer expert. Kubuntu 10.04 seems to perform quite well on my several year old AMD 64 X2 4200+ computer. Unlike the earlier Kubuntu 9.10, I have not yet found any bugs or other problems with Kubuntu 10.04.
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I might have to try again. Upgraded from Karmic about a month ago when KDE broke in Karmic and it was still broken for me in Lucid. I'm currently using Gnome and hating it.
Only issues I have noticed that is relaly annoying (Score:2)
- NVidia drivers seem to sometimes flicker the screen for some reason. But then I reboot and t goes away. Then the next day it is back. Not sure what is going on with that.
- iwl3945 driver does not resume properly after laptop suspend, about 50% of the time. If you encounter this, you have to do this sequence I have figured out with much experimenting
- rmmod iwl3945
- suspend again
- resume again
- modprobe iwl3945
This seems to reset the card enough to fix the issue.
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I'll second the iwl3945 issue, and it leaves my knetworkmanager applet telling me it's unmanaged. The ATI X1400 video driver seems to be buggy too... weird 16-bit-ish rendering on parts of the screen. It's all annoying enough that I'm typing this from Windows 7.
Upgrade madness (Score:2)
Ho hum another *buntu has turned up. It's version xy.z and it's called "Rancid Racoon" or something.
Cue: "but my feature n doesn't do m" style comments followed by "upstream are wankers" etc etc.
Later we get the "my filesystem was eaten by *buntu xy.z and I hate it"
Followed by "Well I've upgraded from *buntu 0.0000000000001 incrementally to xy.z and it all works beautifully".
Now substitute "*buntu" with any other pre packaged distro's name and this gets boring.
I'm a pretty hardcore Gentoo user and we don't
I'll upgrade if they've fixed the bug with OOo (Score:2)
Also, no uber-important, but the same quickstarter icon has a white background. And before you say, "well that's because the new theme is dark", I currently use 9.10 with the New Wave theme which is also dark.
Compiz Desktop Effects = Slow (Score:2)
gNewSense (Score:2)
The free (libre) derivative of Ubuntu should not be left unmentioned: gNewSense [gnewsense.org].
Even if you don't use gNewSense, their homepage can serve as a guide for hardware [gnewsense.org] shopping. They only list devices that work without non-free firmware or drivers.
From their website:
gNewSense is derived from Ubuntu, and thus has most of the same functionality. There are a number of differences though.
I confess, don't care for it (Score:2)
My upgrade to 10.04 broke stuff I've gotten used to working without issue.
Flash in Firefox broke
gxine broke
MythTV broke, but I'm fairly certain that was at best peripherally related (MythArchive Plugin killed the frontend)
Various other smaller but irritating issues
This is obvious stuff that should not have happened, certainly not in an LTS release. Forgivable - I have upgraded every six months for several years now with very little issue, but definitely screwy.
Pug
Re:FINAL VERDICT: Not much has improved. (Score:5, Informative)
They totally changed the theme, lots of bugs closed, many apps have been changed, in short you have no idea what you are talking about.
Re:FINAL VERDICT: Not much has improved. (Score:5, Informative)
Other big bugs exist.
GUI browsing of SMB networks is still borked out of the box. Cups fails when doing an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 you haveto force a --reinstall of cups to fix it.
Several other things as well.
It's better, but still has some serious show stoppers for non linux guru people. My wife likes it as her only OS but only because I fixed SMB browsing and the Cups problem.
Dont get me wrong, I think it's far more stable than Windows 7, but it's not perfect and there are big enough "oopsies" that they need to fix them and release 10.04.1 right away.
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I totally agree, I was only responding to the parent who claimed no major bug fixes occurred.
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three of the four wifi cards i have dont work with it. nvidia drivers are broken in the install kernel. it was rushed... not enough qa. its great if it works for you... big if.
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Okay. I'm fine with anyone liking Ubuntu (though I use Gentoo myself and my Ubuntu install is actually Kubuntu because I prefer KDE). But I have had fewer problems with Windows 7 than I've had with Ubuntu. Windows 7 has become my preferred operating system for vanilla tasks like word processing, etc. Excel, OneNote, Word. Like 'em
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As I understand it, the final verdict of the review is that it really hasn't improved that much...
The last paragraphs of the review said:
The bottom line is that this operating system installed flawlessly on all five of our test systems. It also performed quite well, showing both significant and incremental improvements in most areas over the previous Long Term Support release. The stacked feature set, unparalleled ease-of-use, rock-solid stability, and heavy coat of polish make Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx the most approachable Linux OS to date.
So, it is without an ounce of trepidation that we are unseating the now one year-old Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and calling Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx the desktop Linux distro king.
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The bottom line is that this operating system installed flawlessly on all five of our test systems
Maybe they should have tried a few real-world scenarios. Maybe upgrading a system that was running 8.04 on a RAID-5 array. ...but that would have skewed their 'ubuntu is awesome' stats.
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Why was this modded troll? AC may or may not be demonstrably wrong, but was he trolling?
No, but that's the inequity of the /. mod system. Free speech is not a right on /.
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Violation of freedom of speech: deleting posts, which didn't happen. Exercising your freedom of ignoring other people's speech: browsing at +2.
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Violation of freedom of speech: deleting posts, which didn't happen. Exercising your freedom of ignoring other people's speech: browsing at +2.
Deleting posts != free speech violation.
You have the right to free speech. You don't have a right to post on Slashdot--a network owned by someone else, and more than you'd have the right to spray paint a message on your neighbors house. It wouldn't be a violation if he repainted his house. If you want free speech on the web, go buy your own domain name, load your own discussion or blog software onto your own server.
That's what I do. Of course my free speech will last up until approximately 5 reques
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I think it's clear they were talking about free speech on Slashdot, not the general constitutional right of free speech.
Slashdot makes a point of never deleting comments [slashdot.org] and even allowing anonymous free speech [slashdot.org].
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So, install a brown theme, you dipstick. You need not even be a guru. System > preference > appearance > get more themes online If that is to difficult for you, then you're not even running a Linux distro, you're just a troll.
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What do you mean? Sound magically works again, and stopped fading out into static after 10 seconds of use.
On the downside, there is now no obvious way to get a panel volume control applet. (sigh) At least I'm ahead on average!
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What do you mean? Sound magically works again, and stopped fading out into static after 10 seconds of use.
On the downside, there is now no obvious way to get a panel volume control applet. (sigh) At least I'm ahead on average!
Try siv (or maybe it's 'pysiv'). That's what I use--works well. Simple slider bar that floats on top of everything else so I can easily change the volume while watching videos.
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OK that did the trick. It doesn't show up anymore in the "add to panel" menu which threw me.
Thanks.
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that's a neg.
I just get indicators for rhythmbox (no volume control there); display settings; battery meter; and a weird and useless envelope icon with some useless options, like "set up mail" and "set up broadcast account".
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Anecdote: actually, the plurality of conflicting anecdotes indicate a very unstable software platform.
For instance, I've run the exact same upgrade/install path on both my laptop and desktop. Nonetheless, the mechanics of icons are totally different on each. For instance, I get the stupid envelope icon on my desktop, but not on my laptop. Likewise, audio seems to work and not work at random for each person and each machine configuration. There are many more discrepancies; I've just given up keeping track...
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to elaborate, your sound problem is exactly the one I had on 9.10 on my desktop, but 10.04 fixed.
these are not unusual; anecdotes taken singularly may be worthless, but when the bug reports (as you can read on canonical's fora) show such a non-monotonic path of errors with such variability, there is something wrong.
WinXP had its problems for sure, but I've never heard of anyone whose sound stopped working with SP1, came back with SP2, &c. (unless they were using some weird 3rd party software).