Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) 567
JimLynch writes "The open source world has been eagerly anticipating the final release of Ubuntu Linux 10.04, and now it's finally here. Canonical has been working extremely hard and it shows in the quality of this release."
Re:Except... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HUZZAH!!! (Score:2, Funny)
My Dell Mini is happy running 10.5.7.
Lucid Lynx (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:5, Funny)
Xenophobic Xenomorph?
Re:Is there a How-To on moving the window icons ba (Score:2, Funny)
.... where they belong?
And the Lord said, "Window decorations must always reside on the right hand side of the window!" And so it was done.
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:5, Funny)
but left is good for you (Score:5, Funny)
Do you really want to end up throwing chairs at people?
Re:Is there a How-To on moving the window icons ba (Score:5, Funny)
You aren't being biblical enough.
[Charlton Heston voice]
And thus the Lord, who is our God, the God of Israel, spake, saying " Woe unto him and unto his seventh generation, he who puts his window decorations on the left side, for they are an abomination unto Me. Thou shalt offer burnt sacrifices as guilt offering to atone for your sin and then henceforth always have your window decorations on the right" and thus it was written
Now that's biblical
Not even close to ready for prime time (Score:5, Funny)
When my Gateway LT3201u with its Athlon 64 and positively antiquated ATI graphics can actually come up in X11, it's ready.
When my Acer Aspire One D250-1165, an incredibly common machine with bog-standard intel chipset, graphics, &c can stay up for more than eight hours without hanging with only the background image displayed, or kernel panicking because some system component (the only stuff running is "official" Ubuntu packages) has consumed all available memory and the system can't spawn new processes, it's ready.
But so far, Lucid is in even worse shape than Karmic was when it was released. I'd be ashamed to have my name associated with Lucid.
Re:Except... (Score:3, Funny)
You must have some kind of influence here. Any comment I've ever made about a bug in Linux has been modded down.
That depends on if it is worded as "Linux sux because of bug foobar" or as "Ubuntu sux because of bug barfoo". Real Linux fanbois hate Ubuntu, so word carefully!
Re:Except... (Score:5, Funny)
Why is that a bug? MS hasn't ever detected dual boot properly.
You are mistaken. My 98SE disk detected _both_ boots just fine, I still have the pieces to prove it!
Re:I heard the same about 8.10 and 9.04 and 9.10 (Score:5, Funny)
F12 works so well that...
I'm on Ubuntu. I pressed F12. nothing happened. For all of us ignorant and backward Ubuntu users, what does F12 do on Fedora?
Re:Except... (Score:3, Funny)
Release party on IRC server: irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-release-party
Will there be any chicks there?
Exotic video card? (Score:3, Funny)
Upgrade to debian (Score:3, Funny)
Canonical has been working extremely hard and it shows in the quality of this release.
Yeah--after upgrading my server which has a standalone boot drive along with 8 other disks that are in a RAID6 array--it completely fails to boot. Plymouth is a joke--why install graphical boot crap on a server? I can't even see the output of fsck which is apparently complaining that my array is corrupted--because the output is hooked into the fscked-up plymouth system. Lame regressions. Funny how the 8.04 recovery CD says the array is just fine. Meh, loaded Debian last weekend, haven't looked back.
Oh--and there's my netbook. After upgrading, the wireless and onboard NIC work intermittently. Most hibernates require a reboot because the wireless and NIC fail to come back up. Unplugging from the AC adapter causes a kernel panic about 60% of the time. Lots of lame regressions. But hey--at least plymouth works on my netbook. I can boot graphically into a flaky distro. It's scheduled to be upgraded to Debian this weekend.
I upgraded my wife's computer even though that BOFH part of my brain was screaming that I was 0 for 2 on 10.04 upgrades. Upgraded her from 9.10 and she immediately lost audio in Firefox along with the sound icon in her systray. Mplayer, totem, and the like all output sound just fine. Just no firefox or sound icon. And I can't seem to get it back. There is no audio panel applet. After a bunch of dorking around, uninstalling things, recompiling other things, I got audio working. Very lame regression.
I'm going to skip upgrading any of our customer systems to 10.04 in light of this. Instead, I'll start migrating to Debian. There doesn't seem to be any mention of 'plymouth' in their packaging system. That makes me feel a lot better.
I know everyone's experiences are different, but this upgrade totally kicked my ass.
Why don't they ever delay the long-term releases by a few weeks or months to put together a truly finished product?
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:5, Funny)
Xenophobic Xenu.
In other news, Ubuntu will be taken over by the Scientologists. There will be no major changes; just some web filtering. And the psychiatrist module will be dropped from Emacs, but who uses Emacs anyway?
Re:Burning Karma (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Except... (Score:3, Funny)
"Left Boot" and "Right Boot" qualifies as two distinct boot detection?
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:4, Funny)
Sure, and after Z, they can use AA (Aardvaark), but where do they go from there?
Re:Except... (Score:2, Funny)
banged harder and more often than a $2 whore in Naples when U.S. sailors are on shore leave
Aaaand there goes the class in this thread.
Ugh.
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm waiting on Ubuntu 13.04... Rapist Racoon.
Still, the real danger is in 12.04 LTS: Paedophile Penguin.
Re:Been using Kubuntu 10.04... (Score:5, Funny)
Without tabbed windows, you lived like some sort of animal. Probably sitting in a pile of your own sick and excrement, as likely to use your computer as to try to eat it or hump it.
We all did. Thank god we upgraded.
Re:but left is good for you (Score:3, Funny)
Do you really want to end up throwing chairs at people?
To be honest, that sounds like a lot more fun than wearing turtlenecks and starting a cult....
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:1, Funny)
Abandoned Abalone?
Or were you thinking further on, like
BBC-watching BBKing?
Re:What will they do for release 24? (Score:1, Funny)
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