Ubuntu 9.0.4 (pics)

[NJC]

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on separate partitions. It recognized all of my hardware, and no problems during installation (read install notes first).

New background:

Upgraded Gimp:

Computer Janitor:

USB booting:

New Networking:

I'm currently using 8.04, so some features may not be new. Kernel is 2.6.28-11 and I installed the root to an EXT4 partition, just for fun.

It seems snappy, although I installed it on a faster hard drive. But part of Jaunty's goals was to decrease boot time. More info here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta

 

[uc50ic4more]

I've been using it since Alpha 4 in a VirtualBox VM. It's been stable and fast!

Although I have yet to see those fancy new notifications they've been touting. I use Growl on my Macbook, and have been looking very forward to a system-wide notification system.

 

[NJC]

I guess multi-boot configs are so yesterday ...

I need to investigate VM's. This article claims 9.04 boots in 21s. That's close to the times I'm seeing (est) and is in part due to the EXT4 file system. It's almost as fast as a clean XP installation.

And Suspend - Suspend ACTUALLY WORKS. I like being to Suspend at night and quickly start the next day. There's test scripts for all who want to participate.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/SuspendResumeTesting

 

[MysticGold04]

I'm running it also on a separate drive with Ext4. (removable tray) I cant tell if its Jaunty itself or the Ext4 filesystem but the system boots in HALF of the time Hardy does on another drive, almost identical specs.

Anyhow, the new notifications showed up for me on the Beta release. I did not see them in any of the Alpha versions. I am currently running 8.10 x64 on my laptop, and I'm thinking of wiping XP off of my desktop and running 8.04.2 LTS on that until the next LTS comes out -- with a VM running XP for my programs that I can't give up. (Mainly ITunes, darn DRM!)

 

[adam123]

Nice !

I've got 9.04 Running on a offline web server (just taking local hits) to test its performance, but so far once Jaunty goes to RC status I'll probably put it online, its had absolutely zero problems. My main Desktop PC will probably wait till its actually released I've got some critcal application on their (Electrical-Computer Engineer major) . But it wont be long till its actually released anyway. This will be the servers, 4 Distribution upgrade so far.

Regarding VM, you can use VMplayer, or virtualbox, and Im sure theirs other free ones, but these are the ones that Ive had some great experiences with. Granted it is of course slower then using the actually software without virtualization, buts its not bad at all, the only thing you really cant do is play games.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: adam123
I've got 9.04 Running on a offline web server (just taking local hits) to test its performance, but so far once Jaunty goes to RC status I'll probably put it online, its had absolutely zero problems. My main Desktop PC will probably wait till its actually released I've got some critcal application on their (Electrical-Computer Engineer major) . But it wont be long till its actually released anyway. This will be the servers, 4 Distribution upgrade so far.


The startup scripts and configurations for the LAMP stack - Apache, PHP/ Perl/ Python and MySQL are pretty stable, even in a beta or RC release. The included versions of the applications themselves in the distribution are also frozen well before beta anyhow IIRC, so using it to serve stuff is a pretty sure bet, *especially* if you don't use X.org or any GUI.

Originally Posted By: adam123
Regarding VM, you can use VMplayer, or virtualbox, and Im sure theirs other free ones, but these are the ones that Ive had some great experiences with. Granted it is of course slower then using the actually software without virtualization, buts its not bad at all, the only thing you really cant do is play games.


Both (free, but VirtualBox's open source edition does *not* support USB pass-through; only their free-as-in-beer version does which is *not* available in the Ubuntu repositories IIRC does) VM solutions work very, very well. I use VirtualBox. It should be noted that you can get near-native performance from a VM if your CPU supports kernel mode virtualization; meaning not all of the virtualization needs to take place in software in the conventional sense; but rather the CPU kinda sorta cordons off some "space" for the VM. Cheaper CPU's, however, do not support this.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Lo and behold, Sun just today released VirtualBox 2.2:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

 

[NJC]

Not quite 9.04 related, but here's a welcome addition to automounting drives - installing the pysdm package (Gutsy). Can't say I'll miss trying to find the correct combo of this code in fstab

Code:
user,auto,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,uid=1000

Top window is System/Admin; bottom window is Assistant.

 

[MysticGold04]

Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Lo and behold, Sun just today released VirtualBox 2.2:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads


Yup, got it last night to install into my new 8.04 installation that has replaced Windows XP Home. (Whew, I feel much better) I think the whole setup took less than 2 hours. Including light customization...Windows would have taken at least that to go find the required drivers, etc. I am so loving Ubuntu right now!

 

[adam123]

Decided to put the web server into production, did it about 40 minutes ago, and so far so good. I'll just keep my eye on it, but I'm not expecting any real problems (Hopefully anyway, right ?).

 

[tmorris1]

Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Lo and behold, Sun just today released VirtualBox 2.2:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads


Did anyone try this yet? The install is almost twice as big as the previous version. I have been using Virtualbox to run Linux at work for years now. Works great and is fast and stable on a Core2Duo.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: tmorris1
Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Lo and behold, Sun just today released VirtualBox 2.2:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads


Did anyone try this yet? The install is almost twice as big as the previous version. I have been using Virtualbox to run Linux at work for years now. Works great and is fast and stable on a Core2Duo.


I've upgraded the installations on both Mac and Ubuntu hosts, and everything appears to be working as well and as fast as usual.

 

[tmorris1]

I wonder why the install is growing to big. Before Sun took over is was around 20-30MB, now it is 64MB.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

64MB for all the features this thing offers? That seems like a fit & trim installation to me when you compare it to VMWare Workstation (around 300MB) or VMWare Server 2.0 (around 500MB).

 

[freeze12]

Jost received My CD Rom of "Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition" yesterday from the Netherlands!

 

[T-Keith]

I'm hoping Dell pushes this out to us Mini owners since I've heard video decoding and boot times have improved. I'll definitely push through the upgrade on my Kubuntu desktop. Any other Ubuntu users have the chromium beta installed? It's a developmental build that is constantly updated, a big install but it's nice to see where they're at. Currently they have tabs, but not fully implemented. iGoogle and gmail work pretty good though.

 

[NJC]

9.04 seems a bit flaky at this point ... I've had about 3 programs crashing - but I'm sure it will be more stable at final release. Font rendering is GREAT IMO. I have msttcorefonts package installed using Verdana. I quite like the look (although the screenshot hardly does it justice).

 

[uc50ic4more]

Woah... Those fonts are rendering, uh... pretty... *big*, no?

 

[NJC]

Yes, sorry for the added (seemingly unecessary) zoom.

Edit: Replaced with a normal screenshot @ 1600 x 1080.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: NJC
Yes, sorry for the added (seemingly unecessary) zoom.

Edit: Replaced with a normal screenshot @ 1600 x 1080.


No, no - I mean the font in the Firefox window itself seems to be rendering far too large. I was not referring to the size of the image, but the size of the *font*.