First Impressions: Ubuntu 9.04

Posted by lemiffe in Computers, Operating Systems, Ubuntu on Apr 24th, 2009 | 0 comments

Slick interface, much faster, a few more options here and there, and a faster boot-up.

In general I think it looks quite similar (If at all they added a few more ‘themes’). Where you really notice the difference is in the “Engine”, oh, and the fact that it uses the EXT4 file system.

When you install it, it even checks if you haves windows installed and it will import your document and settings.

There is a normal edition, and a netbook remix edition this time (As well as the Server edition). I am running the normal edition on my netbook because I wanted to see how well it performed. On my eeepc 1002 HA it has performed great! It found my webcam and other devices, installed everything necessary, and seems to be doing a great job. I will try the netbook remix version shortly to see how it compares to the normal version running on a netbook.

For now these are my initial points of view, nonetheless I shall keep you updated if there is any interest.

First Impressions of Ubuntu 8.10

Posted by lemiffe in Operating Systems, Ubuntu on Nov 13th, 2008 | 0 comments

Great-looking, stable, fixes a few bugs I had found previously in 8.04, as far as I have noticed it is generally a bit cleaner, it does seem a tiny bit more sluggish though but I guess that must be related to the larger amount of code involved.

Good work Canonical!

Ubuntu 8.04… First impressions

Posted by lemiffe in Ubuntu on Sep 26th, 2008 | 0 comments

Yeah, I know I’m late to the party, but I still had to give my own opinion on Ubuntu, as it’s the first time I try it out.

Looks great, install was easy, a few things are much easier to use than in windows. It was faster to configure than ArchLinux. It got complicated when I got down to running virtualization, and a few other things. Installing LAMP server was easy as hell. Gnome + Compiz + 3d Cube and a whole set of effects performed superb on my Centrino Duo with 2GB Ram.

I saw no glitches, no apparent slow-down, and little to no application freezing, even while virtualizing Windows XP Pro (with 600MB allotted to Windows), running firefox with 10 tabs, xchat, emesene, pidgin, rythmbox, terminal and a few other apps at the same time.

8.10 is coming out by the end of October so I’m looking forward to the upgrade already, and I’ll share you my experiences with ubuntu when I get farther down the line.