[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[thecabal]

On the surface, the upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 seems pretty good. The “fit and finish” of the OS has improved quite a bit. And subjectively, it seems to be a bit snappier.

[rockrr]

I have a test box for Ubuntu and this will be the fourth upgrade on it. The sticking point for me has been support for G3 and G2 wireless.it just been “ready for primetime” yet.
Maybe this time!

[Paradox]

As much fun as I had building various Linux systems/distro’s, I was happy to leave that all behind me for simple to install systems (XP, VIsta). Ubuntu brought me back. It was the first distro that I thought really approached the ease of use of Windows, OSX, etc.. Up till now I didn’t think it was _quite_ up to par, but I am going to check out the latest version.

[neb52]

There are still multimedia applications that are not supported that keep me going back to Linux full time. I know iTunes is quasi-supported under Cross Over now, but still looks spotty. The other is Netflix’s Watch Instantly that installs a piece of software into Windows Media Player and uses WMP to display the streaming video. Of course I having bigger problem with Netflix using WMP then Linux’s lack of support for WMP (obvious reasons). Netflix needs to be like HULU that require a certain OS and media player.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Don’t they come out with this story with every new upgrade?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

For Netbook users watch out for this:

Intel Linux Driver Kills The Netbook Experience

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Posted by Michael Larabel on April 22, 2009

Using this Intel Atom netbook with Ubuntu 9.04 RC with X Server 1.6 and xf86-video-intel 2.6.3, I would have rather just brought a bulky notebook with ATI or NVIDIA graphics than to put up with this graphics mess (or just downgraded to Ubuntu 8.10). I generally just use Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin while away on business, but with Ubuntu 9.04 RC the Intel netbook experience is ridiculous. Among the issues are the system becoming unresponsive when opening up a large email or web-page and when typing there is quite the delay at times before the text appears on the screen. Sadly, there is no proper fix in time for Ubuntu 9.04. Enabling greedy migration heuristics and some other driver options can help alleviate the situation for some, but the default experience is far from pleasant and telling a novice Linux user to edit their xorg.conf is not friendly either.

[JoeProBono]

Just downloaded. Will check it out. Thx!

ubuntu

[martin_fierro]

I’ve installed it on two machines, but it’s having trouble recognizing the PCMCIA network card on one of them. :(

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

As a long time linux user I find it just a little bit hard to understand when Ubuntu x.x.x is somehow compared to Vista, or Windows 7 as saying it’s finally spiffy, or fast or whatever.

A distro to my way of thinking is just that - a distro.

It’s not really a new “program” - it’s just a new bundle of programs. You could run the same linux kernel or same nvidia driver (or whatever) with 100’s of other linux distros or variants.

So what is the basis for saying that Ubuntu y.y.y (or Red Hat or Suse or whatever) is “sluggish” but Unbuntu x.x.x is “great”? It seems (to me anyway) that all this a) incremental and b) academic since you could upgrade your drivers from other distros all day long.

[rabidralph]

One man's Ubuntu is another man's kumbya

[Chewbacca]

I tried installing Ubuntu.
It installed fine, but I couldn’t get my soundblaster x-fi sound card to work at all so I deleted it.

[FLAMING DEATH]

I'm running 9.04 on a HP DV6000 series laptop.

I have to say, having used Ubuntu since the 6.XX days, this is one sweet system.

Everything is polished and intuitive. Usually, in the past, tweaking a new distro to make it work was a multi hour job. On this one, everything just worked.

The only problem I noticed was that the WiFi driver included to run my Broadcom wireless was somewhat lacking in performance. Seemed to have a lot of lag. I installed ndisgtk, which installed everything necessary to run my wireless using my original Windows driver. Did the whole thing without touching the command line. Now, the wireless works perfectly.

It also boots quickly, usually less than 30 seconds. Plus, the desktop is gorgeous. This is what mine looks like right now...

[calex59]

How is it for finding drivers or do we still have to hunt for them?