As the guy who started the thread, I have to say my first shot was an upgrade from 9.10. The main problem was that the Repositories didn't update the available software for another day, so all the tests I was trying to run ended up straight to limbo. Nevertheless, as it is the LTS, I clean installed the netbook(which I had wrecked on upgrade), and upgraded my main box. I now say that 10.04 is an excellent system which will probably keep on getting better as the available software libraries go through a few more catch-up iterations. And it works well with the SimplyMEPIS 8.5 I put on my spare box today. Networking is a charm, and Ubuntu is light years ahead of Fedora 13 and SLED 10 imo. Simono On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 19:23 +0000, Mark Elkins wrote: > Read this thread at the time and kind of thought I'd would stick to the Hardy > Heron. However someone gave me a laptop which had an amusing black screen > when XP was booted up because it went wrong a few years back and the costs > quoted to fix put them off fixing it. So they stored this Pentium 4 circa > 2005 Compaq in the loft for a few years - there must be thousands who have > taken this view. Anyhow decided to use it as test bed for Ubuntu 10.04 > running off the dvd/cd drive a few days back and I thought this looks good. > > So today I installed on my Sony Vaio VGN-NR11M/S circa late 2007 in place of > the Hardy Heron. > > (1) The install took about 30 minutes. However carting data off and and back > on the partition I used took a bit longer. I guess with regard to the data is > that the sliver lining in the cloud is that it kind of forces you to have a > clear out of stuff you don't want. I gave up long ago with trying upgrade > versions of linux as there always seemed to problems, but maybe I'm being too > conservative in still holding that view perhaps. > > (2) The Atheros wireless card inside works - which it never did with the > Hardy Heron. > > (3) The brightness and volume function keys work - which it never did with > the Hardy Heron. > > (4) It seems more responsive than the Hardy Heron - it runs quicker basically. > > (5) Somehow the battery time has increased by about 1 hour 20 minutes > according to the ubuntu app on battery life - although I've not tested to > this in action. > > (6) The Oracle logo on the installed OpenOffice kind of took a bit of getting > used too, but the Ubuntu version shipped with 10.04 seemed good to me. > > (7) I like the default colour scheme. > > (8) I guess for the beginner user there are a few things that might confuse > them on the install such what file system to use but it seems easier to > follow than previous versions. > > All in all then I would think 10.04 is probably going to be close to as good > as it gets for the Linux desktop from what I've seen so far, > > Mark Elkins > > Ps In my capacity as Chair of OSSG I'm told by BCS Dorset that the recording > of the Open Source Question Time event at Bournemouth Uni a few months back > is on its way at last, which quite a few from the LUG attended and asked > questions at. > > > >
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