Comments on: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, First Impressions http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/ A Kevlar-Burrito Full Of Meat Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:19:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: henka http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-84342 henka Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:32:48 +0000 http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/#comment-84342 It just hapends to me because i use "new" hardware, and no its not a nvidia, its a ATI radeon. It did install the "closed" drivers after first boot but 3d desktop would't work so i had to install a package (that i had to find out about on a forum somewhere) and manualy edit xconf to change a 0 to a 1, things that a normal user would't have found out unless googeling for a hour and still the advice given on the page was "try it, didnt work for me but did for person X". But i give ubuntu thumbs up, it realy feel fresh with nice and clean fonts and good HID performance. It just hapends to me because i use “new” hardware, and no its not a nvidia, its a ATI radeon. It did install the “closed” drivers after first boot but 3d desktop would’t work so i had to install a package (that i had to find out about on a forum somewhere) and manualy edit xconf to change a 0 to a 1, things that a normal user would’t have found out unless googeling for a hour and still the advice given on the page was “try it, didnt work for me but did for person X”.

But i give ubuntu thumbs up, it realy feel fresh with nice and clean fonts and good HID performance.

]]> By: Lasses Funderingar http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-84291 Lasses Funderingar Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:49:46 +0000 http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/#comment-84291 As I was afraid of, the installation did hang during upgrade. Sigh! But on the upside all that was needed was some gtkd to make it work again. Still having a little issues with flash tough but it will be hammered out eventually. Didn't get that WOW feeling, perhaps because of previously using 7.04 Feisty. But the screen do looks somewhat nicer in regards to resolution and typefaces. And, of course, the internal broadcom wlan just will not work for me. Irritating as hell both for me and for by eldest daughter from whom i sole the network card that works. As I was afraid of, the installation did hang during upgrade. Sigh!
But on the upside all that was needed was some gtkd to make it work again.
Still having a little issues with flash tough but it will be hammered out eventually.

Didn’t get that WOW feeling, perhaps because of previously using 7.04 Feisty. But the screen do looks somewhat nicer in regards to resolution and typefaces.

And, of course, the internal broadcom wlan just will not work for me. Irritating as hell both for me and for by eldest daughter from whom i sole the network card that works.

]]> By: isecore http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-84282 isecore Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:46:11 +0000 http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/#comment-84282 Henka: My guess is that you've got a 8800 series Nvidia? There's been some issues with it, but nothing major. Some systems don't like it, and requires some tweaking to get it going. I don't own one myself so I wouldn't know. (On a sidenote, I find it somewhat amusing that these things always happen to you, and rarely to anyone else I know. I also find it amusing how it always supports your "claims". Never the less, you should be able to find a solution in the forums, I'll bet my last buck that someone else had the same issue as you and found a solution. If not, well, then that's your problem.) As for your X-Fi, well... that's really not Linux's fault since Creative stubbornly refuses to release either specs or a proprietary driver for it. Insinuating that it's the communitys fault that your expensive soundcard doesn't work is just low. Win2k is almost decent as far as long-term stability is concerned. Provided one locks it down, don't mess too much with it and use it exclusively for less demanding tasks then it's almost as if it was a real operating system. I guess even Microsoft manages to produce something half-decent from time to time. And again, suggesting that the forum-users haven't tried plugging something in is just low, even by your standards. Henka: My guess is that you’ve got a 8800 series Nvidia? There’s been some issues with it, but nothing major. Some systems don’t like it, and requires some tweaking to get it going. I don’t own one myself so I wouldn’t know.

(On a sidenote, I find it somewhat amusing that these things always happen to you, and rarely to anyone else I know. I also find it amusing how it always supports your “claims”. Never the less, you should be able to find a solution in the forums, I’ll bet my last buck that someone else had the same issue as you and found a solution. If not, well, then that’s your problem.)

As for your X-Fi, well… that’s really not Linux’s fault since Creative stubbornly refuses to release either specs or a proprietary driver for it. Insinuating that it’s the communitys fault that your expensive soundcard doesn’t work is just low.

Win2k is almost decent as far as long-term stability is concerned. Provided one locks it down, don’t mess too much with it and use it exclusively for less demanding tasks then it’s almost as if it was a real operating system. I guess even Microsoft manages to produce something half-decent from time to time.

And again, suggesting that the forum-users haven’t tried plugging something in is just low, even by your standards.

]]> By: henka http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-84281 henka Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:33:39 +0000 http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/#comment-84281 installed 7.1 yesterday and immediately got problems, my GFX card dont support the "enhanced" desktop so i had to find a forum post and trying to edit xconf and installing some packet. I realy like it, but i still cant use ubuntu due to my x-fi extreme audio is not supported AT ALL by any linux distribution out there. So for me i cant even use it for "normal" desktop use. Other then that the quality of 7.1 is realy high, going to put it (or xubuntu) on their laptop that currently is running a win2k installation from mars 2001 (yes, its true and it is still 100% stable and works perfectly fine with almost-as-new performance, despite age old 256ram and Pentium M 800mhz). I find it beeing a nice experiment to se if my mom and pop can use it daily (mail, surfing, some office). Its to slow to run XP and win2k is not realy supported any longer, and they dont play games so what have they got to loose? Anyway, it's nice but still need more hardware support. I'm gonna test my creative Zen vision:m tomorrow and se if it works (didn't in 7.04 despite claims on forums, did they even try it?). That alls :) installed 7.1 yesterday and immediately got problems, my GFX card dont support the “enhanced” desktop so i had to find a forum post and trying to edit xconf and installing some packet. I realy like it, but i still cant use ubuntu due to my x-fi extreme audio is not supported AT ALL by any linux distribution out there. So for me i cant even use it for “normal” desktop use. Other then that the quality of 7.1 is realy high, going to put it (or xubuntu) on their laptop that currently is running a win2k installation from mars 2001 (yes, its true and it is still 100% stable and works perfectly fine with almost-as-new performance, despite age old 256ram and Pentium M 800mhz).

I find it beeing a nice experiment to se if my mom and pop can use it daily (mail, surfing, some office). Its to slow to run XP and win2k is not realy supported any longer, and they dont play games so what have they got to loose?

Anyway, it’s nice but still need more hardware support. I’m gonna test my creative Zen vision:m tomorrow and se if it works (didn’t in 7.04 despite claims on forums, did they even try it?).

That alls :)

]]> By: Lasses Funderingar http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-84273 Lasses Funderingar Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:07:58 +0000 http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/#comment-84273 Just upgrading! Still haven't a clue what to expect. But you have been preaching of gutsy Gibbon since the first time i layed my eyes on your blog. So I just have to give it a try. But I'll hold you responsible if the upgrade succeed the first time. That has never happened with Windows and shall therefore never happen when upgrading an Operating System. Best Regards Just upgrading! Still haven’t a clue what to expect. But you have been preaching of gutsy Gibbon since the first time i layed my eyes on your blog. So I just have to give it a try. But I’ll hold you responsible if the upgrade succeed the first time. That has never happened with Windows and shall therefore never happen when upgrading an Operating System.

Best Regards

]]> By: Mind http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-84254 Mind Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:32:28 +0000 http://blog.isecore.net/2007/10/19/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-first-impressions/#comment-84254 I think Im going to do a clean install of the latest Ubuntu. I have a lot of crap in my current one and itīs not the kind of crap I want to save. I am really curious =) I think Im going to do a clean install of the latest Ubuntu. I have a lot of crap in my current one and itīs not the kind of crap I want to save. I am really curious =)

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