The Ubuntu thread

[MoonLit]

Ugh well looks like I'll be keeping windows along with Ubuntu. Kinda need it to play SWTOR. Plus my Wacom Bamboo Connect tablet wont work in Ubuntu yet anyways. Ah well, no biggie.

Oh akigr8, I tried JoliOS but I couldn't even get past the login screen because ya gatta be connected to the net to even get to the desktop, and it wouldn't acknowledge mine. Made me sad.

[akigr8]

Ugh well looks like I'll be keeping windows along with Ubuntu. Kinda need it to play SWTOR. Plus my Wacom Bamboo Connect tablet wont work in Ubuntu yet anyways. Ah well, no biggie.

Oh akigr8, I tried JoliOS but I couldn't even get past the login screen because ya gatta be connected to the net to even get to the desktop, and it wouldn't acknowledge mine. Made me sad.

That's a bummer as it quite fast, and some of the things there are very good.
Another interesting distro is Meego. It looked good on my netbook the last time I played with it. You can get a feel of it in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDImB_lEzgI

[stijndeloose]

Has anyone tried "Ubuntu One"? Is it any good? How does it score in comparison with DropBox, for example?

[BlackBart]

Has anyone tried "Ubuntu One"? Is it any good? How does it score in comparison with DropBox, for example?

I've started using it. It's the first personal cloud I've used so I can't compare it with anything else. It works well and the software is reasonably intuitive to use. I had a few problems with the Windows client, but recent software updates seem to have cured that.

[stijndeloose]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

[stijndeloose]

I've been using it for a couple of days now, and it seems to be working fine, so far, both on Win7, WinXP and Ubuntu 11.10. Nice!

[stijndeloose]

Meet Ubuntu for Android: The Next Step in Ubuntu’s Multi-Device Plan

Meet ‘Ubuntu for Android’ – a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical’s ‘multi-device’ future for Ubuntu.



When in your pocket the phone is the same as it always was: an Android device. But when the connected to a monitor (by way of a nifty looking dock) it launches into a fully fledged Ubuntu desktop running the Unity interface.

More here.

I think that rocks. Now when will they be issuing a Ubuntu smartphone?

[Ultimate]

Meet Ubuntu for Android: The Next Step in Ubuntu’s Multi-Device Plan

Meet ‘Ubuntu for Android’ – a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical’s ‘multi-device’ future for Ubuntu.



When in your pocket the phone is the same as it always was: an Android device. But when the connected to a monitor (by way of a nifty looking dock) it launches into a fully fledged Ubuntu desktop running the Unity interface.

More here.

I think that rocks. Now when will they be issuing a Ubuntu smartphone?

I knew this was going to be the future when I saw the Atrix laptop dock (even though that wasn't a very good attempt). I would love something to take the place of my laptop, desktop, game console, cable box, etc. Mobile devices are finally getting enough horsepower to actually do it too.

[stijndeloose]

Demonstration:

[stijndeloose]

Anyone else been experiencing system freezes? I'm getting them more and more often, and they always seem to occur when Rhythmbox is running. It's not like the system switches to sleep mode. It just freezes, the mouse pointer still moves, but there's nothing I can click, and the keyboard doesn't seem to work any longer either. All I can do is reboot. Any ideas?

[stijndeloose]

Seems it's a - yet unsolved - bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... mments=all .

[FreshwaterSeaCowHero]

I loved Ubuntu 10.04.
Ive had problems with Wubi for Ubuntu 11.10. I hated the new interface so I switched to Gnome 2. It was slow and the UI crashed a lot, and the system froze whenever I downloaded something from the software center. I don't know why that was happening. After a while I said screw it and now I'm using Linux Mint 12 with the Gnome 2 environment. I love it. I'm thinking about trying out the Debian edition too.

[stijndeloose]

Dunno... to be honest, I like Unity, and I have hardly had any trouble with it apart from this. I could change back to Banshee, I suppose, but Banshee is way to buggy in my experience...

[FreshwaterSeaCowHero]

What I meant was that even in Gnome 2 it froze and crashed a lot. Linux Mint doesn't have those problems.

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

thought 11.10 got rid of gnome 2.

I cant understand what is with the trend about dumbing the entire UI down to smartphone interface. cant stand unity, metro likewise fills me with dispair (especially given m$ have screwed up functionality) and no idea what apple are calling their smartphone ui crap.

seriously. when you have a plenty of screen real estate and mouse and keyboard. smartphone uis are there because of the limitations of the platform. theres no reason to subject everyone to these limitations.

given the rumours about what Cannonical were planning to do 12.04 about losing menus alltogether.. if thats the case I will be switching distro

[klazmon]

thought 11.10 got rid of gnome 2.

I cant understand what is with the trend about dumbing the entire UI down to smartphone interface. cant stand unity, metro likewise fills me with dispair (especially given m$ have screwed up functionality) and no idea what apple are calling their smartphone ui crap.

seriously. when you have a plenty of screen real estate and mouse and keyboard. smartphone uis are there because of the limitations of the platform. theres no reason to subject everyone to these limitations.

given the rumours about what Cannonical were planning to do 12.04 about losing menus alltogether.. if thats the case I will be switching distro

I've been running 12.04 since alpha 1. It is now well past feature freeze and there are definitely still menus. The second beta is scheduled for release on 29th March. 12.04 is a big improvement on 11.10 IMO.

[twistor59]

thought 11.10 got rid of gnome 2.

I cant understand what is with the trend about dumbing the entire UI down to smartphone interface. cant stand unity, metro likewise fills me with dispair (especially given m$ have screwed up functionality) and no idea what apple are calling their smartphone ui crap.

seriously. when you have a plenty of screen real estate and mouse and keyboard. smartphone uis are there because of the limitations of the platform. theres no reason to subject everyone to these limitations.

given the rumours about what Cannonical were planning to do 12.04 about losing menus alltogether.. if thats the case I will be switching distro

I've been running 12.04 since alpha 1. It is now well past feature freeze and there are definitely still menus. The second beta is scheduled for release on 29th March. 12.04 is a big improvement on 11.10 IMO.

What's improved w.r.to 11.10? I'm quite happy with my 11.10, so I need to be sure that I really want to before I upgrade.

[klazmon]

thought 11.10 got rid of gnome 2.

I cant understand what is with the trend about dumbing the entire UI down to smartphone interface. cant stand unity, metro likewise fills me with dispair (especially given m$ have screwed up functionality) and no idea what apple are calling their smartphone ui crap.

seriously. when you have a plenty of screen real estate and mouse and keyboard. smartphone uis are there because of the limitations of the platform. theres no reason to subject everyone to these limitations.

given the rumours about what Cannonical were planning to do 12.04 about losing menus alltogether.. if thats the case I will be switching distro

I've been running 12.04 since alpha 1. It is now well past feature freeze and there are definitely still menus. The second beta is scheduled for release on 29th March. 12.04 is a big improvement on 11.10 IMO.

What's improved w.r.to 11.10? I'm quite happy with my 11.10, so I need to be sure that I really want to before I upgrade.

A lot of work has gone into compiz and unity to improve performance and stability. It is pretty slick now. The beta 2 will be all about fixing remaining bugs. There is also the usual raft of app updates, new kernel and xorg. 12.04 is an LTS release and this time the desktop version will join the server version with a five year support life. They have also introduced a new feature called "the hud" which is quite interesting.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/hud- ... y-feature/

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

ah, thats what I was thinking of, news article that went along with introducing the hud suggested they were going to lose menus in favour of hud.

tbh, I dont see the point of "the HUD", its sort of an amalgamation of Unitys search and command line, however either way seems slower than using nested menus as usual.

[twistor59]

A lot of work has gone into compiz and unity to improve performance and stability. It is pretty slick now. The beta 2 will be all about fixing remaining bugs. There is also the usual raft of app updates, new kernel and xorg. 12.04 is an LTS release and this time the desktop version will join the server version with a five year support life. They have also introduced a new feature called "the hud" which is quite interesting.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/hud- ... y-feature/

The hud looks quite nice. I won't do the beta2 tho, will wait till the release...