On 03/25/2013 01:54 AM, navashok wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> On 03/24/2013 05:54 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: >>>> On 03/23/2013 09:44 AM, Bhairitu wrote: >>>>> Since I run Linux and Ubuntu I decided that I'd better update to Ubuntu >>>>> 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) before the month runs out because support >>>>> for 10.04 which I currently run will end. So I click on the upgrade and >>>>> it looked like everything went smooth. Rebooted and got a screen saying >>>>> the system couldn't find the boot partition. Argh! So since I have >>>>> another computer in the room I ran it to search for answers. Most of >>>>> the problems had to do with old software and dependencies for those. >>>>> This was not going to be an easy fix. What had happened is that the >>>>> upgrade didn't actually complete though it acted like it did. >>>>> >>>>> So I gave up BUT of course I had made an image backup of the 10.04 boot >>>>> partition with Clonezilla and copied it back. Reboot and back to >>>>> 10.04. This afternoon I'll try again this time uninstalling the one >>>>> particular program that was the culprit before running the upgrade. >>>>> Before Winders users feel smug I've seen similar problems doing Winders >>>>> upgrades. And before someone recommends Linux Mint which I run off of >>>>> pen drives on other computers I would love to do that but apparently the >>>>> Android emulators only can run in GPU mode on Ubuntu and I need that for >>>>> testing super high density devices like 5" phones with 1080x1920 displays. >>>> Well that was fun (NOT!) Decided that Ubuntu's Unity interface is not >>>> for professional software developers so reinstalled 10.04 again. In the >>>> process noticed that the support for 10.04 may have been extended to >>>> 2015 probably because a lot of Ubuntu users HATE the unity GUI. It is >>>> hard to know until you actually are trying to use your everyday tools >>>> whether or not a new GUI is going to work for you until you actually try >>>> it. Just doing the Live CD didn't tell me much. >>>> >>> Sounds like Ubuntu released the Windows 8 of Linux. >>> >>> >> People have called it Ubuntu's "Vista". It is so dumb it reminded me of >> Microsoft's "Bob". :-D >> > Couldn't you just have installed Xubuntu?
Development environments are very fragile so one has to be careful about installations and always do them with backups. Google broke developers like myself when they bought a bunch of new machines for the Android testing group, installed 10.04 on them and didn't check for backward compatibility. I had to do an update from 9.04 to 10.04 to get Android development working again. They are ambivalent about 12.04. Unity was designed for 16:9 screens but if you ask me the way the general public might use a 16:9 screen. Developers might use that space for multiple open Windows which was difficult or too hard to do with Unity. I'll keep 10.04 up while I look at and probably test other options. There is a problem with other distros because one wants to make sure you can run emulators for these devices with super high density screen. That requires using the GPU and it seems that only Ubuntu supports that at this time.
