Ubuntu 9.04 Beta

    I must warn you right away, this is not a review. Just the thoughts that came to mind during use.

    In fact, officially beta has not yet been released, but judging by the roadmap , the release is scheduled for tomorrow.



    But nevertheless, due to the fact that I couldn’t make friends with Linux Mint 6, and I did n’t especially want to install 8.10, I decided to take a chance and still try to install a “buggy sharing” called Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”. I think you, without emotion, share my irony, for indeed, the previous development versions of ubuntu caused me longing for debian unstable / experimental.

    So to the point. Downloading from Daily BuildAlternate i386 image, with little concern;) went in for installation. (By the way, remind me why on a C2D with two gigs of RAM to use amd64 assembly ... I still do not see the difference;)

    During the installation process, I did not experience any difficulties, my previously created LVM group was determined to be corrested, there were no crashes or errors. I would like to note the download speed of the main installer, I did not sit with a stopwatch, but quickly. The same can be true for the entire installation process. From the innovations: it became possible to use the automatic download and installation of critical updates, which in the previous release only seemed to have the server version of the distribution. The list of equipment has been updated. The installer offers two options for initrd - either sharpened for the current system, or cram all the modules that are. Ext4. Yes, perhaps that's all. Perhaps in the usual, non-alternate version of the distribution kit, there will be more innovations in the installation.

    The Canonical guys really did a great job over the download speed, again they didn’t detect the stopwatch, but the fact that the download time to GDM was noticeably reduced was a fact.

    By the way, the new GDM theme, in principle, is pretty nice.

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    The appearance of the desktop basically has not changed.

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    Two days of work did not reveal any fatal flaws. In general, the system has become somehow ... faster. The speed of compiz's work has increased significantly, possibly due to the GEM, which is used by the kernel (I have a video from intel).
    In general, emotions are positive.

    Thanks for attention.

    UPD: Thanks for the karma;) Moved to Ubuntarium

    UPD2: Let's add a little

    Firstly, I was very pleased with the new version of HPLIP, firstly, some new settings appeared (but I think this is still the merit of the new driver in CUPS), and secondly, the new version is written in Qt4.

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    Further, the feature that the developers declared as an innovation. New notification system.

    This is the work with the mixer.

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    If you hover over it.

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    Banshee

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    Pidgin

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    notifications Notifications are not interactive, they just notify and do not require anything else from the user.

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