Ubuntu 10.04

MPaul · Jun 11, 2010

On May 30th, I put Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop, dual boot XP. Wow, the reviews on the new OS do not do it justice. It is very nice.

The first thing I noticed were the superior font displays, layouts, and graphics, the best I've ever had. And this is my first OS that actually is fast as lightning. All the software associated with it is improved in display and function.

The OS downloaded and installed fast and easy. The hardware I tried went straight in.

The OS color and display design seemed weird to me at first, but I got used to it immediately. The high contrast menus are easy to read, and the gradient backgrounds are attractive. The OS design seems modern and sophisticated, though it takes a day to get used to at first.

I had liked 9.04. I think it is amazing how much improvement went on. I just wonder what 11.04 will be like.

I had a couple problems. The top line on the bottom tool panel is not completely straight. Also, if I plug in a thumb stick, its browser menu does not appear right away, but I have to go to Places, Computer and click on it.

At any rate, for me at least, this OS is pure pleasure. I still have to use Windows for DTP work, but I'm looking forward to the day, when I will be done with MS for good.

Dark_Lite · Jun 11, 2010

Hmm... time to play with this in a VM.

brandon.j · Jun 12, 2010

Isn't it great? I've installed Ubuntu on a number of computers in various churches around the area that had a lot of malware on them. A group I'm with does network overhauls for churches and schools. We use Ubuntu as much as possible though what they need to use for legacy software usually wins. We're overhauling our first school network, a much larger project, so we'll push Ubuntu wherever possible in it and train their administrator.

th1bill · Jun 25, 2010

I've been doing my best to stop Christians? from installing boot-leg copies of the, much inferior, Windows systems since Ubuntu 7.10. With the release of 8.04 Ubuntu exceeded Window's capabilities and exhibited the much vaunted capabilities that were intended to have been built into the Windows 7 revamp that never happened in any form. With the thousands of business quality program packages that are also free, I'm miffed! Why would anyone ever pay money to use a system that requires constant IT management to keep the Malware out of it. I have not performed system maintenance since '07, Saturdays are not leisure time.

Dark_Lite · Jun 28, 2010

th1bill said:
I've been doing my best to stop Christians? from installing boot-leg copies of the, much inferior, Windows systems since Ubuntu 7.10. With the release of 8.04 Ubuntu exceeded Window's capabilities and exhibited the much vaunted capabilities that were intended to have been built into the Windows 7 revamp that never happened in any form. With the thousands of business quality program packages that are also free, I'm miffed! Why would anyone ever pay money to use a system that requires constant IT management to keep the Malware out of it. I have not performed system maintenance since '07, Saturdays are not leisure time.

Unfortunately, businesses tend to be built around one environment: Windows, Unix, or Google. Windows and Unix don't really play all that nice with each other, and both have entrenched markets. Google is a relative newcomer with their suite of cloud apps. A lot of newer, small business are using Google Apps to power their infrastructure.

awitch · Jul 30, 2010

I was enjoying Ubuntu 9.10 and then upgraded to 10.4 and since then I've noticed major slow downs. The system crawls when the update manager is running (even if it's not actively downloading/installing anything). Firefox seems to hang even with all the latest updates and patches.

Drive activity seems to spike for 5-10 minutes every so often for no apparent reason.

Any ideas what might be doing this?

Qyöt27 · Jul 30, 2010

awitch said:
I was enjoying Ubuntu 9.10 and then upgraded to 10.4 and since then I've noticed major slow downs. The system crawls when the update manager is running (even if it's not actively downloading/installing anything). Firefox seems to hang even with all the latest updates and patches.

Drive activity seems to spike for 5-10 minutes every so often for no apparent reason.

Any ideas what might be doing this?

I experienced stuff like that with 9.10, actually. The solution was to remove the notification applet (the envelope icon) from the panel. Otherwise, maybe it was related to something in the upgrade? I am assuming that by 'upgrade' you meant doing a dist-upgrade, not a fresh install of 10.04 that overwrote the existing 9.10.

awitch · Jul 30, 2010

Qyöt27;55359608 said:
I experienced stuff like that with 9.10, actually. The solution was to remove the notification applet (the envelope icon) from the panel. Otherwise, maybe it was related to something in the upgrade? I am assuming that by 'upgrade' you meant doing a dist-upgrade, not a fresh install of 10.04 that overwrote the existing 9.10.

Yes, I did the upgrade through the update manager. I usually frown on any in place upgrade, but I didn't feel like burning another CD.

Maybe I'll just do the clean install and see if its better.

Qyöt27 · Jul 30, 2010

awitch said:
Yes, I did the upgrade through the update manager. I usually frown on any in place upgrade, but I didn't feel like burning another CD.

Granted I always make sure to burn new CD-Rs with each release, but the reported possibility of being able to use an ISO as a loopback device through Grub2 does have my interest piqued. Unfortunately I couldn't really figure out how to actually do it when I attempted it, even following the tutorial on the Ubuntu Wiki.

Hopefully the process is streamlined and made simpler to do, as that would make recovery, reinstallation, or fresh install upgrades through LiveCD a lot faster, since the LiveCD would be on the HDD, not on a CD-R or USB with slower access speeds.

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