Long anticipated Ubuntu 8.04 was just released yesterday [April 24, 2008] I should call me "lucky" as I am using it within 12 hours of the release.
Lets discuss about our expectations and the actual experience here. The Live CD has a major change. It gives a direct installation option which doesn't boot the whole usable OS, instead it just gives the GUI ubuquity installer. Just a note when installing, remove the internet cable when installing. [we live in Bangldesh]. My first experience after installation is "disappointment". My monitor was detected as widescreen. My monitor's native resolution is [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the highest resolution was 1280x960. By the way, I use nVidia GF 7300LS The Hardware Driver (previously known as Restricted Drivers) showed that there is a "new" nVidia driver and it is not in use. There is no option to download or reinstall the new driver. Later I found that I needed to update the repository to get that option! I tried to reconfigure the xserver. It stops reconfiguring after it gets information about the keyboard. Then the resolution became [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyways, finally I could make it [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yes 50!) Another thing is, ubuntu's desktop stopped working 4 times. I don't know exactly why. But it never happened before. Bluetooth Manager impressed me. This is the first time when I could send and receive files from and to my mobile phone without any problem. But my phone detects my computer as "gizmo's Mac Pro" (the name I use on Mac OS X) instead of "gizmo-desktop-0". Weird! Font rendering, desktop visualization, start-up time is really impressive. Application startup time seemed a bit slower. My internet speed got screwed up today, so couldn't do experiments on other stuffs. Thats all for now, waiting for other user's experience. NOTE: My "PC" is comparatively old one. P4-2.8, 2G RAM. Using a separate 30GB IDE hard drive for ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bd mailing list ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
