Update on Ubuntu 11.4 install
Regarding my previous fine whines about the bugs in the latest Ubuntu release, Natty 11.4, out of fairness I felt I should present my subsequent experiences with the Unity desktop version. The display bugs and performance disappointments I encountered upon first install have been extinguished with a week's worth of Ubuntu updates. The one remaining snag, not being able to define alternate mount points in the installer, is a major one for novices, but obviously cannot be remedied without an entire new release .iso. Now that Natty seems to have settled down, apparently it does deliver performance superior to its predecessors. Whether due to the new compiz-based graphics instead of mutter or some other change I can't say but display speed is noticeably improved with Unity. Ubuntu forums seem to indicate problems with Natty "Classic" (the old Gnome-ish interface) but at least Unity delivers on its promise of speed. Also, possibly related, I've found that Natty's LibreOffice loads its initial invocation much faster than OpenOffice. So much so that I've abandoned GEdit Geany and Kate and use Libre Office Writer for all my work, text as well as word processing and HTML; it's really just as fast and clean as GEdit. That alone justifies the switch to 11.4 for me. The new Unity side panel still takes some getting used to but at least it works as advertised now, my old favorite Avant panel coexists perfectly with it and the improved Natty graphics makes the Unity app menu as fast as the old Gnome-panel, even with the extra mouse click. On 05/03/2011 09:04 AM, Russell Johnson wrote: > On May 2, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > >> Fedora on my T60 performed horrendously. > While I do not have much experience installing on many laptops, I can speak > to Redhat/CentOS/Fedora. > > I shy away from Fedora, just as I shy away from a .0 release of most > software. Fedora is, as Redhat puts it, The community, bleeding edge > distribution. I read that as, "We test things here. Don't expect everything > to work." Some have very good luck with it. I choose to not put myself in > that position. I need my computer to work, for work. > > CentOS, on the other hand, is RHEL, without any of the RedHat proprietary > stuff. It should be, and in my experience is, very stable. I've installed it > on various hardware without issue. The CentOS team takes the RHEL open source > tree, and reconstitutes it. > > RPM has it's issues. So does dpkg/apt-get. So does the windows registry. All > can be worked around. > > All OSes suck. Some just suck worse than others. :) > > Russell Johnson > r...@dimstar.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
