Hi
I installed Xubuntu 10.04 last night, updating via Update Manager option. It took a long while - about 12 hours - but I think this is more down to it only being a 300Mhz P2 rather than any reflection on the software.
The general look is the same as 9.10. It seems generally faster. Firefox booted a lot quicker and page navigation was quicker. Boot time is considerably faster and has a new look boot screen.
So far so good. Machine is a ThinkPad 600 P2 300 with 296MB RAM and 15GB HD. The update didnt resolve the audio problems, something I will have to resolve myself.
Simon Royal
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On 30/04/10 09:31, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I installed Xubuntu 10.04 last night, updating via Update Manager option. It took a long while - about 12 hours - but I think this is more down to it only being a 300Mhz P2 rather than any reflection on the software.
I am not running Xubuntu, but Ubuntu.
Upgrade on a quad core box would have taken about 5 hours including downloading from the gb archive (which seemed to be struggling a little last night) had I stayed up to answer the few questions the package manager prompted me for old config files etc.
The general look is the same as 9.10. It seems generally faster. Firefox booted a lot quicker and page navigation was quicker. Boot time is considerably faster and has a new look boot screen.
Looks identical to me apart from a new Avant window manager theme. But then I am running a custom theme not one of the stock ubuntu ones so it would do.
The boot screen (note I am not running a custom boot screen theme) seems to have "Ubuntu 10.04" in a Commodore 64 era ugly font in place of the Ubuntu logo above the boot progress indicator, not sure if something is broken there because it looks terrible. Can't comment on performance yet.
So far so good. Machine is a ThinkPad 600 P2 300 with 296MB RAM and 15GB HD. The update didnt resolve the audio problems, something I will have to resolve myself.
So far I have seen the following minor post upgrade issues/annoyances.
Thunderbird was un-installed despite there being a version available in the repository, I just had to reinstall so not a biggy and it kept my mail/settings intact...that said I remain to be convinced about the new thunderbird interface.
Avant window manager has changed it's executable name but the start up entry on my gnome profile was not ammended to reflect this...so I booted to no taskbar.
The above mentioned Boot screen
During the upgrade I got prompted again to ask where the grub bootloader should be installed, It was an easy question for me to answer but I thought the dialogue was vague and confusing and defaults to grub being installed nowhere and may well confuse other users. I am not 100% sure why it is necessary to ask this question again as surely it is easy to determine from the existing grub config ?
Other than that the important things seem ok, at least...it has gone 100% better than my 9.04 > 9.10 upgrade did *cough*
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