Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hot Update: 8.10 is out and 8.04 back in…
Sorry to disappoint some people that may feel we should push the party line, but 8.10 is really buggy at the most simplistic level: the desktops (yes, both GNOME and XFCE4) keep going south on me as described previously. 8.10 is really unstable and has some significant bugs. Period. Remember folks that for the Linux Desktop to survive and grow, it must be easy and seamless to install and to use for the average user!
Thus, 8.04 is back in…
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Yes, I’m still here: 6 months later and Ubuntu
I have not given up on anyone, nor on anything yet.
The last post, which was quite a while back, discussed my latest attempt at an alternative OS and trying out the Linux Ubuntu Distro. I must say, that it is the first Linux Distro ever that installed and pretty well every thing worked on a Dell D600. I was quite impressed indeed.
In the meantime, I acquired an older Mac PowerBook G4 laptop and I also dabbled into OSX 10.5.5. I will discuss my experiences in a later post.
Back to Ubuntu. I also installed it on a Dell C610 laptop, but I must admit that with only 512MB memory, Ubuntu struggles quite a bit on the C610. I even installed the Xubuntu Desktop. Performance improved a bit, but The Gimp was having issues with the display where the Brush Outline never cleared up and was really, really messing things up. I ended up keeping WinXPP on it and it is working quite fine.
On the D600, it’s performance was quite extraordinary, specially since the D600 has 2GB of memory. But somehow, I really like the XFCE Desktop and I stuck with it.
… time passes …
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