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Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx)
JimLynch writes "The open source world has been eagerly anticipating the final release of Ubuntu Linux 10.04, and now it's finally here. Canonical has been working extremely hard and it shows in the quality of this release."
Except it isn't released yet. On hold due to a bug in install process that doesn't detect dual boot set ups properly...
Release party on IRC server: irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-release-party
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>>>TFA has already been slashdotted...
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This Ubuntu release is 10.04 LTS (for "Long Term Support").
Getting the RC version or the latest daily ISO and upgrading from that is functionally equivalent to waiting for the final ISO to be released and installing it.
Anyone updating their packages from a recent enough beta or RC of Ubuntu will end up having the equivalent of the release.
In case it's not clear, it makes sense NOT to wait for the final release.
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For those of you curious... The latest build of 10.04 still has not fixed the Network bug where you can not map Sabma network drives.
Such as pain in that ass as this did once work in 9.10.
-Will P.
.... to the right side of the window title bar where they belong? If it's not possible, I will not budge from 9.10 thank you very much.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/
.... to the right side of the window title bar where they belong? If it's not possible, I will not budge from 9.10 thank you very much.
just use the "Human" theme (that's the default in 9.10)... the buttons moved are only part of the NEW THEMES.
.... to the right side of the window title bar where they belong? If it's not possible, I will not budge from 9.10 thank you very much.
Simply copy and paste this line into your terminal: /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string “menu:minimize,maximize,close,spacer”
gconftool-2 --set
Not true. I was running my own custom theme (loosely based on Clearlooks) from 9.10 and on upgrade it forced my buttons to the left, requiring me to change it back.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
"We might skip a few letters, and we'll have to wrap eventually. " - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
odd, i gave up on redhat and suse back in 2003, and went with gentoo, because i wanted/needed a vanilla distro. Ever try getting an exotic video card working in fedora/suse back then? I'm betting they follow upstream more now. Good to see that Redhat/fedora are getting their act together. Gentoo doesn't force buttons anywhere, it does as upstream says, or as I tell it to. viva la Gentoo
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I used Gentoo for almost 3 years, but personally, I dumped it for Ubuntu when 9.04 was released. Gentoo often got confused over time. portage would work great until EVENTUALLY it got into some conflict where you couldn't emerge a new package because it conflicted with an older one. And if you tried to update your profile things could get hairy. And merging your changes to an old config file with the incoming one via etc-update? That was always a crapshoot. 90% of the time it would work fine. The other 10% something would break and require a few hours of digging around to fix it.
Don't get me wrong I liked the speed of Gentoo, and it was nice that I typically had new releases of software much faster than I do on Ubuntu, but Gentoo just got to be too big of a headache for me.
Besides. On theming issues it's not hard to pull Ubuntu back to defaults (or customized to what you want - which for me isn't upstream nor Ubuntu's defaults).
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Well since the link is slashdotted, maybe a list of the new features will be useful:
So it looks like solid improvement for the most part, nothing really revolutionary, but solid.
sudo apt-get purge libmono* libgdiplus cli-common
"...today consumers have been conditioned to think of beer when they see a bullfrog..."
Really... Define "almost anything".
If it's one of the repository provided applications (thousands thereof), it's as simple as:
Clicking on "system", mousing down to "Administration", mousing over and down to "Synaptic Package Manager" and clicking to bring up Synaptic. From there, you can search for the application you're looking for by using search criteria- things like "game", "3D", or "draw". At that point you have a point-and-click list of items you can install. You'll need to supply an administrator password for the process at some point, but then Windows kind of does the same thing if you've got your security settings set up right to begin with (if you don't...someone'll eventually have a happy pwning on you...). Not really any more difficult than the Windows way of doing things.
If it's a commercial application, it's typically as simple as running the installer script or binary provided for the vendor (uh...just the same as Windows...)- and if the vendor has done their job right it should just work out of box with a wide range of Linux versions. Hell, some of the vendors have gone the extra distance and provided .deb and .rpm packagings as well as an installer binary. It's even easier to install those as it's just double-click on the package file, approve the install, and supply your admin password.
Now, if you're talking hardware...heh...difficulty's more in the eye of the beholder. There's tons of stuff out there that just won't work with Vista or Windows. Either you chance it or you do your research because unless it's very recent, it won't be labeled "for Vista" or "for Windows 7" on the packaging. Since this is the case, you'll do a bit of checking unless you're into wasting money or gambling- which is little different for Linux there.
I don't at-all accept your supposition. In truth, with all the BS you spouted in your post, I'm unsurprised you posted it anon.
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I've switched back to Debian from Ubuntu recently, too. "Sidegrading" from 9.10 to Debian squeeze while keeping all your application configs (and your entire homedir) intact is an absolute breeze:
http://www.psy-q.ch/blog/articles/2010/04/20/sidegrading-from-ubuntu-9-10-to-debian-squeeze-its-a-breeze/
Although there were a few snags during installation:
http://www.psy-q.ch/blog/articles/2010/03/28/new-adventures-in-debian-land/
used Gentoo for almost 3 years, but personally, I dumped it for Ubuntu when 9.04 was released. Gentoo often got confused over time. portage would work great until EVENTUALLY it got into some conflict where you couldn't emerge a new package because it conflicted with an older one. And if you tried to update your profile things could get hairy. And merging your changes to an old config file with the incoming one via etc-update? That was always a crapshoot. 90% of the time it would work fine. The other 10% something would break and require a few hours of digging around to fix it.
That's what revdep-rebuild is for.
right now, at this very minute.
This is a definite WTF moment. How could Ubuntu not include the GIMP?!! And worse yet, they have replaced it with F-Spot -- one of the most difficult and annoyingly feature free graphics programs I have ever seen. IIRC, it is based on Mono, too, which is another reason to hate it.
Well, Ubuntu is shaping up to be more and more useless with every release. In 8.04, I could resize an external monitor to whatever resolution the monitor could take. Updates disabled that functionality and constrained me to hardware detection. In 8.10, using an external monitor on an EEE causes a blank screen. CUPS is broken on every release soon after install. Skype and USB audio have not worked since 8.04. Firefox has been getting worse and worse, as well.
Ubuntu used to be easier to use than anything, but now, it is getting like Windows: Many things are broken and cannot be fixed whatever one does. I guess I will just have to keep my fingers crossed for Haiku or switch back to Fedora. For all the money Canonical has spent and all the work that has been done, I would have believed they would have come out with something better. I guess I will never be able to upgrade my EEE :(
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9.10 was the first version of Ubuntu that I could get sound up on since 7.04. The developers of Pulseaudio supposedly said "We will break your sound." They certainly did. I'd tried no fewer than 5 distros and had decided to go back to WinXP when a last-ditch effort got 9.10 working right. Usually. It still goes into a 'funk' sometimes.
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string menu:minimize,maximize,close
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Well, yes they do because if Canonical are expecting F-Spot of all things to be an adequate replacement for an image manipulation application then they're nuts. The GIMP was the only one in the Gnome/GTK world. If they're saying that the GIMP isn't good enough and they're dropping then, well, their application pool gets ever more laughable.
apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras is ridiculous? How easy do you need it to be?
If it requires the command line, it's too hard. It needs to show up in Ubuntu Software Center (or whatever they call it in 10.04; I'm waiting a month to upgrade from 9.10), not be buried in Synaptic.