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."

Comments

Except...

[i.r.id10t]

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

Re:Except...

[dotancohen]

There are lots of "little regressions" in 10.04, for example this one that affects ATI-powered notebooks:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/537640

This is shaping up to be one buggy release!

Re:HUZZAH!!!

[commodore64_love]

>>>TFA has already been slashdotted...

If you're using Opera turn on "turbo" and it will load.

It's 10.04 LTS (not "10.04")

[MagicFab]

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.

Re:It's 10.04 LTS (not "10.04")

[MBGMorden]

While it's unlikely this late in the game, you have to account for the fact that the Beta or RC versions could put your system into a bit of disarray (for example, the alternatives system for Nvidia drivers has given me nothing but trouble) which might not be reversed on final update. To be safest, it's best to wait for the final release.

Specifically, though I had no trouble upgrading from 9.04 final to 9.10 final, I jumped the gun and tried 10.04 while it was beta. Lets just say that while the system is working ok(-ish), I won't be doing that again, and after the release today I'm wiping the system and reinstalling a clean copy (/home is on separate drive so it's pretty easy to just start over).

Re:What will they do for release 24?

[BrentH]

"We might skip a few letters, and we'll have to wrap eventually. " - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

Re:I heard the same about 8.10 and 9.04 and 9.10

[cynyr]

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

Re:I heard the same about 8.10 and 9.04 and 9.10

[MBGMorden]

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).

Re:quality?

[PsyQ]

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/

No GIMP?! Seriously?

[LuYu]

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 :(

Or just enter one command:

[GameboyRMH]

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string menu:minimize,maximize,close

Thanks to:

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1592998&cid=31593244