Well I've been running Ubuntu 10.4 - aka Lucid - for a number of weeks now. I've upgrade a few times and I'm now up to beta 2. First, I have to say that it continues to impress. Booting quickly but perhaps lacking the 'clean lines' I'm expecting with all the talk of the Plymouth Brethren and it's graphical boot. Still, it does boot quick so I'm not overly bothered.
Everything still seems to be working well. I've moved across to the Google Chrome variant of the browser from Chromium on account of it including Adobe's Flash built in and a later version (10.1) than that which comes with Lucid.
Surfing - my primary use for the netbook - is sharp. Quick to load pages and video is continuing to be lag free - well, most of the time, and certainly more lag free than any of the rest of the OSes I've run on the Acer One. I should say I haven't actually run XP on this thing but can't see it being quicker.
Signing off, and continuing to be suitably impressed with Ubuntu Lucid. Keep up the good work...
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Friday, 16 April 2010
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Lucky Lucid and the Browser Of Bliss
After a short foray into the world of ChromeOs in the form of Hexxeh's Flow I have moved back to Ubuntu. After a brief flirt with the latest Beta of EasyPeasy I have settled back down with Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 and too be honest it's not a lot different from EasyPeasy (which is also based on Lucid Alpha).
First off, I have to say I found EasyPeasy quick. If anything it performed quicker than ChromeOS. Which isn't that surprising really I guess, considering the pre-release, pre-alpha nature of ChromeOS. Fair play to Hexxeh though, he has put together a fair decent OS which boots quicker than anything that's gone before.
After finding a few missing packages in Easy, namely VPN based stuff, I quickly reverted to Ubuntu Netbook version, installing from a USB Sticked ISO. It installed in a jiffy and after an initial hiccup on bringing up X - it seemed to hang but after a quick flip to the text login, it flicked into life. Subsequent boots have been without incident. A word on the boot front. It is quick - not the quickest I've seen - that honour goes to ChromeOS Flow - but still 18 seconds is quick in my book.
First off, I installed Chromium Browser and VPN bits I couldn't get from Easy Peasy, namely openvpn and pptp and Flash - can't live without a bit of flshing - so it'll never be an apple a day for me sadly because I really liked the look the iPad - oh well, maybe next year...
In use the browsing is quick and for the first time on my lowly Acer Aspire One, video plays without much judder - result. Generally I'm finding far less pauses and short hangs while surfing. I've had a few app crashes - which is to be expected on an Alpha but so far - and we're only talking four hours in - I'm finding Lucid Netbook to be a very able and rapid system. I think I'll stick with this for a while...
First off, I have to say I found EasyPeasy quick. If anything it performed quicker than ChromeOS. Which isn't that surprising really I guess, considering the pre-release, pre-alpha nature of ChromeOS. Fair play to Hexxeh though, he has put together a fair decent OS which boots quicker than anything that's gone before.
After finding a few missing packages in Easy, namely VPN based stuff, I quickly reverted to Ubuntu Netbook version, installing from a USB Sticked ISO. It installed in a jiffy and after an initial hiccup on bringing up X - it seemed to hang but after a quick flip to the text login, it flicked into life. Subsequent boots have been without incident. A word on the boot front. It is quick - not the quickest I've seen - that honour goes to ChromeOS Flow - but still 18 seconds is quick in my book.
First off, I installed Chromium Browser and VPN bits I couldn't get from Easy Peasy, namely openvpn and pptp and Flash - can't live without a bit of flshing - so it'll never be an apple a day for me sadly because I really liked the look the iPad - oh well, maybe next year...
In use the browsing is quick and for the first time on my lowly Acer Aspire One, video plays without much judder - result. Generally I'm finding far less pauses and short hangs while surfing. I've had a few app crashes - which is to be expected on an Alpha but so far - and we're only talking four hours in - I'm finding Lucid Netbook to be a very able and rapid system. I think I'll stick with this for a while...
Monday, 2 November 2009
Cosmic Koala
I just installed Kubuntu Karmic Koala on my PC. On the face of it, it doesn't seem to really add much. It really doesn't look much different to Jaunty but somehow it does seem to run smoother. Is it blind optimism? I don't know but it does feel a tad more responsive.
On the ubuntu front, my server based ubuntu system definitely seems to be running smoother with less cpu load after the upgrade.
I know it hasn't been long but at this early stage I give both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 9.10 the thumbs up.
It's not all sweet smelling roses though, the kubuntu upgrade of my old Acer 1360 laptop did not go so well. The Acer has a crappy INP2220 WiFi card which is totally non-linux and never will be. Under Jaunty I was able to use NDISWrapper to run the Windows [issues sign of the crucifix] but under Karmic it won't assign an IP address. The NDISWrapper stuff appears to work. The module loads up and gives me the interface (wlan0 via ifconfig) but it just won't go the last mile and IP up. Oh well, trouble in paradise...
On the ubuntu front, my server based ubuntu system definitely seems to be running smoother with less cpu load after the upgrade.
I know it hasn't been long but at this early stage I give both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 9.10 the thumbs up.
It's not all sweet smelling roses though, the kubuntu upgrade of my old Acer 1360 laptop did not go so well. The Acer has a crappy INP2220 WiFi card which is totally non-linux and never will be. Under Jaunty I was able to use NDISWrapper to run the Windows [issues sign of the crucifix] but under Karmic it won't assign an IP address. The NDISWrapper stuff appears to work. The module loads up and gives me the interface (wlan0 via ifconfig) but it just won't go the last mile and IP up. Oh well, trouble in paradise...
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