Ubuntu 14.4

[Papa Bear]

uc50ic4more slipped over to the house today and updated my 12.4 Ubuntu to 14.4

He said he could drop in to anyone who is having problems with their installations.
He would be available later this year for service calls in the CA, AZ & FL areas.
uc50 would have to stay with you until install is complete .. usually takes from about Jan 4 to end of April.

 

[ClutchDisc]

Trying to escape the winter?

P.S. Ubuntu 14.04 is really really great!

 

[GreenFocus]

I'm big fan of mint linux, I used Ubuntu in the past.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Typing this in FF running on Ubuntu 14.04 off a USB stick right now. Been playing around with it for the past couple of days. Still getting used to it. I've only been using windows OS all my life, so some things need to be re-learned, and certain programs found - some don't have a good linux alternative. But all in all, for a free OS, not bad.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
some don't have a good linux alternative


Run a few of your preferred applications by us: Maybe we have some useful suggestions for you!

 

[Quattro Pete]

Well, a good disk speed benchmark utility with GUI was a challenge, as noted in the other thread. In Windows, I have CrystalDiskMark or ATTO Disk Benchmark.

Or a versatile audio player/library manager such as Foobar2000. I know there are players out there for linux, but still looking...

In any case, no big deal. I'm not planning to permamently switch to linux on any of my regular PCs. I'll only run it if I buy a media center PC that comes with no OS. Most other apps I'd need work under linux no problem (Plex, uTorrent, Logitech Media Center, TeamViewer, FileZilla, etc.)

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Or a versatile audio player/library manager such as Foobar2000. I know there are players out there for linux, but still looking...


Rhythmbox is the default in Ubuntu and Banshee in Mint. I have heard nothing but great things about Clementine and Amarok is quite a piece of stuff, too.

There are dozens of lighter-weight alternatives floating around in the repositories. Check out Audacious, too.

I have heard Foobar2000 also runs nicely under WINE in Linux.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Well, a good disk speed benchmark utility with GUI was a challenge, as noted in the other thread. In Windows, I have CrystalDiskMark or ATTO Disk Benchmark.

You know how same state her to not bother with a UOA and divert the $20+ dollars to a different oil, or how tig1 uses his M1 for 10,000 miles without worrying? Stick with Linux, and unless you're doing something with huge overheard, you're not going to worry about benchmarks, since you're already getting a speed bump by having less nonsense running in the background. Are you running a server farm? If not, don't worry about benchmarks.

 

[Quattro Pete]

I was testing a USB 3.0 flash drive speed.

 

[Garak]

Ahh, okay, well, I'd be curious, too, to see how different sticks work on different computers, but never bothered trying that much. Stay away from the GUI anyhow. That's for wusses.

The last time I tried any benchmarking was when the thread came up here, and before that, I can't remember how long ago it was.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: Garak
The last time I tried any benchmarking was when the thread came up here, and before that, I can't remember how long ago it was.


Same here!

 

[Garak]

For me, when using a USB stick, it's usually a 2.0, and a relatively small security video file from one of the businesses. I don't use them regularly for an OS or for backing up huge amounts of data, so I don't worry about the speed much at all.

But, it might be interesting to compare. I know that USB 3.0 was noticeably quicker then USB 2.0 for backing up onto my external hard drive. But, "noticeably quicker" was precise enough for me.

 

[Quattro Pete]

On this particular USB stick, Ubuntu was reporting read speed of around 110 MB/s. Windows - 220 MB/s. Alas, two different file systems and two different test utilities, so they can't be compared.

However, Ubuntu indeed does start very quickly when booted from this USB stick.

 

[Garak]

Yep, two different utilities make comparisons difficult. Well, plug it into a USB 2.0 port and see how it compares. At least you'll get a rough idea.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Well, plug it into a USB 2.0 port and see how it compares. At least you'll get a rough idea.

Yup, did that. Ubuntu shows read speed of around 35 MB/s in USB 2.0 port. Start up time is noticeably slower, but not terrible.

 

[simple_gifts]

Just remember with any write benchmark, one needs to factor in the time it takes to defrag the NTFS after it writes data to the disk. The important thing is that it stores the data quickly, not that it stores it well. lol.

ext[34] is just "one" linux fs. xfs is another and is generally used in high performance disk apps.