Linux Ubuntu 11.04 is alive!

vishalrao

vishalrao

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The Natty Narwhal (alpha 2) is up and running (swimmingly) on my desktop. Took all of 5 minutes to install via USB stick on Friday. Has been stable (downloading/movies/music/browsing) over the weekend.

ONLY 8 seconds boot from GRUB to Login screen and 3 second flat shutdown to poweroff! Previously it's been about 10 seconds and 5 seconds respectively on Maverick and Lucid :)

Too bad the images were unstable on my laptop because I wanted to test BTRFS (with SSD/compression) to see if it improves speed/capacity there.

The 2.6.38 prerelease kernel apparently has the 200-line desktop interactivity patch included, but I never faced any stutters on my swanky old quad core haha.

Currently there's a major Xorg update in progress meaning NVIDIA/ATI drivers may not arrive for some time. Nouveau with experimental 3D support working well for my 8800GT (compiz desktop effects, havent tried games so far).

Updated apps, LibreOffice (some issues with GUI integration), Firefox 4 Beta 10 working nicely.

Not liking the Unity thing, switched back to classic desktop in GNOME. Still has the menus reorganised, trying to get it back to the normal way.

KDE 4.6 apparently has some nice performance improvements on the desktop, though the installer isn't working out for me.

Overall, again just some incremental/evolutionary improvements, can't remember anything exciting here - most of the good stuff was accomplished during 10.04 / 10.10 release timeframe :D
 
Interestingly, the installer issues (kernel panics) happening on my laptop (which wasnt happening on my desktop strangely with the same USB stick) was showing some SQUASHFS errors, so when I tried another USB stick the Kubuntu install went ahead.

I wonder how many times I've been confounded by this thinking its a software issue all the while its probably a bad USB pen drive.

Too bad there are still some btrfs issues, really excited to see what it can do for my SSD...
 
Latest and greatest Unity screenshots and videos should be all over youtube :P I'm trying to avoid it.

Not sure about compiz-fusion and gnome-shell. gnome-shell is being shunned by ubuntu, might show up in fedora/opensuse first.
 
KDE 4.x series have only been getting better and better. 4.0 til 4.2 or so was a disaster. Since 4.3 its been steadily improving. Current 4.6 with Natty is very nice :)

Checkout Win7 running in VirtualBox here:

(Clicking the yellow bar doesnt seem to be enough, need to click the image to go to ImageShack for full size)

 
vishalrao said:
Checkout Win7 running in VirtualBox here:
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Win7??? :lol:

2.6.38 is more smoother for me than .37....I am still on lucid with new kernel....11.04 should be good upgrade once unity settles down :)
 
Win7 FTW !

The 2.6.38 kernel (which has the 200-line desktop interactivity performance patch) is in RC or near release state. Ubuntu 11.04 will (mostly) have some 2.6.38.x stable kernel release in it...
 
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