Hi Guys Anyone tried the latest Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope . Haven't had a chance myself. What's your take on it. Speed? Gnome 2.26? Hardware compatibility? etc etc. "Excellent people exceed expectations".
And guys who've already downloaded the iso, my speeds would take like three days on the thing, who can share I'll come with my own dvd. TX V On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Nicholas Loki <lokimwenga@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Guys Anyone tried the latest Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#cite_note-ubuntu_9.04_ann-66>. Haven't had a chance myself. What's your take on it. Speed? Gnome 2.26? Hardware compatibility? etc etc.
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My first impressions are that it was dragging on my laptop, the alpha and beta versions were also doing the same so i just went back to Interpid. GNOME 2.26 is awesome though. -- Δαβίδ H. L. Mencken <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken.html> - "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Hi All, Have tried it and the results are looking good! It feels faster and Gnome 2.26 has broken down on me at all. The beta had issues with my Huwaei Modem but the complete one is silky! Am having fun anyway....... Thanks, 2009/4/28 David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com>
My first impressions are that it was dragging on my laptop, the alpha and beta versions were also doing the same so i just went back to Interpid. GNOME 2.26 is awesome though.
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Hi All, Have tried it and the results are looking good! It feels faster
Are you guys sure you are comparing? Based on what parameters? All of you have different hardware so comparing apples and oranges... I am thinking there should be some basic system requirements for the comparison. There must be a better way than you guys are doing it. Perhaps you need to concentrate on the areas that were improved, based on the ChageLog? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
@Odhiambo: I carefully chose my words.......it 'feels' faster......Am running it on a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop C2D 2.4Ghz, 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM blah blah.......the only things i changed were the distro from 8.10 to 9.04 and the file system from ext3 to ext4! It boots faster than 8.10 (guaranteed)......maybe you can suggest some benchmark tests???? How would you go about comparing the logs? 2009/4/28 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
2009/4/28 Nzomo Bernard <nzomosky@gmail.com>
Hi All, Have tried it and the results are looking good! It feels faster
Are you guys sure you are comparing? Based on what parameters? All of you have different hardware so comparing apples and oranges... I am thinking there should be some basic system requirements for the comparison. There must be a better way than you guys are doing it. Perhaps you need to concentrate on the areas that were improved, based on the ChageLog?
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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2009/4/28 Nzomo Bernard <nzomosky@gmail.com>
@Odhiambo: I carefully chose my words.......it 'feels' faster......Am running it on a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop C2D 2.4Ghz, 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM blah blah.......the only things i changed were the distro from 8.10 to 9.04 and the file system from ext3 to ext4! It boots faster than 8.10 (guaranteed)......maybe you can suggest some benchmark tests????
That's what I wanted you (Linux users) to do in the first place:) Everyone should come up with their hardware specs and then the areas they have tested and how they "feel" about the new version as compared to the old version, otherwise it's like a case of "a new shirt definately feels better than the old one..", which is rather obvious. In general my understanding is that some changes will not be quite "obvious" to your "feelings" because they are not quite userland related and so have nothing to do with user experience! I am a FreeBSD user, sorry to say so we have nothing much to talk about on the userland side of things because the OS is not a "Desktop"-type OS like Linux is, unless one used PCBSD. Even using PCBSD still will not make the user feel anything significant, bar for the few imaginations that it starts faster, better aesthetics because of improvements on the WM, but these are truly just perceptions. When FreeBSD version 7.x was released, the significant changes were http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd7.html. Version 8.x is in the kitchen and the significant changes are http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html. If you spend some time to go through those two, you will realize just how lost some of us are when you do your comparisons with Ubuntu version changes.
How would you go about comparing the logs?
I meant, ChangeLog, not logs, sorry. The changelog would say what was put under the hood. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
Ok Odhis...:-) Will see what tests i can come up with! On another note, i have some exposure to PCBSD 7, Fedora 10, Solaris 10 and all installed in the same laptop having 9.04 just to toy with! As to what improvements (server edition) there has been, take a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/techspecs/whatsnew Cheers! 2009/4/28 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
2009/4/28 Nzomo Bernard <nzomosky@gmail.com>
@Odhiambo: I carefully chose my words.......it 'feels' faster......Am running it on a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop C2D 2.4Ghz, 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM blah blah.......the only things i changed were the distro from 8.10 to 9.04 and the file system from ext3 to ext4! It boots faster than 8.10 (guaranteed)......maybe you can suggest some benchmark tests????
That's what I wanted you (Linux users) to do in the first place:) Everyone should come up with their hardware specs and then the areas they have tested and how they "feel" about the new version as compared to the old version, otherwise it's like a case of "a new shirt definately feels better than the old one..", which is rather obvious.
In general my understanding is that some changes will not be quite "obvious" to your "feelings" because they are not quite userland related and so have nothing to do with user experience!
I am a FreeBSD user, sorry to say so we have nothing much to talk about on the userland side of things because the OS is not a "Desktop"-type OS like Linux is, unless one used PCBSD. Even using PCBSD still will not make the user feel anything significant, bar for the few imaginations that it starts faster, better aesthetics because of improvements on the WM, but these are truly just perceptions. When FreeBSD version 7.x was released, the significant changes were http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd7.html. Version 8.x is in the kitchen and the significant changes are http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html. If you spend some time to go through those two, you will realize just how lost some of us are when you do your comparisons with Ubuntu version changes.
How would you go about comparing the logs?
I meant, ChangeLog, not logs, sorry. The changelog would say what was put under the hood.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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See: "Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X" <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10226746-92.html> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Nicholas Loki <lokimwenga@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Guys Anyone tried the latest Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope . Haven't had a chance myself. What's your take on it. Speed? Gnome 2.26? Hardware compatibility? etc etc.
"Excellent people exceed expectations".
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