New Ubuntu

[velik_m]

Anyone tried it?

[spursncowboys]

I got the IPO, but first updated to Win7 and now cannot get to GRUB.

[rold50]

It works great for me.

[spursncowboys]

It is F'in awesome!!! PPA is easy as hell now.

[spursncowboys]

Heres some links that helped me out after I installed 9.10
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/10-useful-things-to-do-after-installing.html

[sabar]

Yeah, it pretty much borked X11 for me. Operating systems suck, they all suck. Always having to jump through hurdles for something. I spend more time configuring stuff than using it with new releases. Should of learned my lesson with KDE4, with ALSA, with ATI, but no. I'm fixing crap in Ubuntu more than in Windows. Maybe its time to drop this distro for good.

[baseline bum]

Yeah, it pretty much borked X11 for me. Operating systems suck, they all suck. Always having to jump through hurdles for something. I spend more time configuring stuff than using it with new releases. Should of learned my lesson with KDE4, with ALSA, with ATI, but no. I'm fixing crap in Ubuntu more than in Windows. Maybe its time to drop this distro for good.

Did you do a fresh install, or an upgrade? Ubuntu requires pretty minimal configuration for me, which is the reason I like it over all the other distros I have used. Then again, I fucking hate KDE and use the default Gnome, and thus I can't testify anything about Kubuntu.

I understand the frustration on ATI. ATI's official GNU/Linux drivers were some of the buggiest and most difficult to install shit I have ever seen when I needed them for my old Radeon8500 years ago. Sucks to hear things haven't changed in the decade.

[Bender]

just installed 9.10 as dual boot on my vista laptop. Install went fine, but wireless internet doesn't work.

from googling the problem, seems wireless worked great in previous releases, but got broke in 9.10. Sheesh, wasted time. Should have went with debian like I used to use.

[koriwhat]

just installed 9.10 as dual boot on my vista laptop. Install went fine, but wireless internet doesn't work.

from googling the problem, seems wireless worked great in previous releases, but got broke in 9.10. Sheesh, wasted time. Should have went with debian like I used to use.

it def aint hard to get goin'...

[Bender]

well, I figured it might not be hard, or it might be...

I posted the above something like 5 minutes after the install. Was a "first impressions" thought...

this is 2009 right? can a brand-spanking-new linux distro have working wireless?

[Bender]

ok, so it was easy. just had to setup the ssid and connection myself. Weird thing was that the wireless light was red (off), should be blue. After setting up the connection, and getting it working, the wireless light is still red.

oh well, at least it works.

hope its a good distro. never had ubuntu before. mostly used RH, fedora, mandriva, and debian previously.

[Bender]

son want's ubuntu on his xp machine also. it won't install though, it gets to the "Install Ubuntu selection, then to the language selection, then it's just a blank screen from then on.

I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that he is using a 19" HDTV as his computer monitor. Maybe ubuntu can't display properly on it, even though windows has for years.

[spursncowboys]

son want's ubuntu on his xp machine also. it won't install though, it gets to the "Install Ubuntu selection, then to the language selection, then it's just a blank screen from then on.

I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that he is using a 19" HDTV as his computer monitor. Maybe ubuntu can't display properly on it, even though windows has for years.
I always have to manually install my nvidia driver. 9.10 is the only version that was easy.

[jacobdrj]

I put it in a virtual box, but it was giving me trouble. My goal is to set up an Ubuntu/MythTV box with multiple tuners. Time will tell if it will be worth the effort.

[Steel]

I know this is a bit old, but I have been using 9.10 (studio) and it's been nice. everything works fine.

Synfig studios works great on this version I also updated my version of wine and photoshop CS2 works great. The Chrome browser I installed through PPA works great. The only problem I think I had was Brasero and Gnome CD master didn't work for me. Installed K3b and burning CDs and DVDs with that works just fine. As far as of hardware I haven't had any problems. I love how I can plug in my Wacom tablet and it works. I don't think there is a GUI to configure the tablet, but It's configured the way I like it. MAC and Windows I always had to change the buttons on the pen.

I have seen over all improvements with each release. Never had this wireless problem though, I hear so many people talk about.

This link might be helpful for new users.

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/top-things-to-do-after-installing.html


Over all, Ubunut has been kick ass.

[Bender]

after a few weeks of farting around with it, I really like it so far. got everything working great, and on this laptop, which formerly was Vista only, I now boot into ubuntu exclusively... Vista is now just taking up space on my hard drive...

only complaint I still have is that there is some problem about DNS...
firefox was extremely slow (I had to go into config and set it to not use IP6). I'm not sure what the DNS problem is, but many people are complaining about it on the net...