Hi Al, Yes I did revert back but its quite trivial to re-install 9.10 again as I have pretty much everything standard and my /home is in a separate partion anyway (only really use the laptop for facebook and gmail - as I call it "telly surfing" - surfing while the adverts are on).
The thing is its an old ibm-t20 with no battery pack (it gave up the ghost) but its such a sturdy laptop I can't bring myself to throw it away, especially since ubuntu linux (with XFCE) has given it a new lease of life. It has always struggled with "full-fat" gnome. I havent implemented encryption yet on it but you made some good points about security that I hadnt considered.. Despite that I still think the login screen from 9.04 is way cooler. But then to be fair I havent really given 9.10 the full test drive as its an old laptop so it might be a graphics rendering issue. My desktop is still on 9.04 also but thats a bit trickier to upgrade because its customised just right, and my home is not on a separate partition. So before I upgrade I need to sort out a few things first and create a system image using partimage (I have a special live disc called SystemRescueCD which is really cool (www.sysresccd.org). Regards Richard 2009/12/17 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> > Hi Richard, > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0000, Richard Forth wrote: > > 2009/12/17 Richard Forth <[1]richard.fo...@gmail.com> > > I liked the fact that in 9.04 you could choose to type in a username > and a > > password so if it fell into the wrong hands no one would know any of > the > > two bits of information needed to get in. > > If your computer fell into the wrong hands it's trivial to find out what > your username is, and whilst there change your password. Once someone has > your laptop in their hands all bets are off. You can use encryption to > reduce the chance that they will have access to your data, but relying on > security via obscurity isn't really worthwhile. > > Personally I encrypt the files in my home directory using 'ecryptfs' which > is encrypted with a key which initially matches my password. However if > someone steals my laptop and changes my password the key will no longer > match and they will not have access to my files. > > > If you follow the cracker's 50% rule, then if my username is up on > screen > > to select then that's 50% closer to breaking in than not knowing what > > username to try (except maybe root but that is not allowed to log in) > > You can logon as root in Ubuntu if you reboot and choose recovery mode. > This > is also how you can change another users password. > > > All the desktop icons and task bar icons certainly seem more polished, > > unfortunately the system ran like a dog so that's all I had time to > look > > at, but apparently there's some other cool feature including a > different > > package manager but I cannot comment on that. > > I'd be interested in helping you get 9.10 working well. Have you now > reverted back to 9.04? If you're on 9.10 we could look at why it's running > slow and maybe resolve it. > > > Has anyone else upgraded to 9.10 and what are your thoughts? > > I have upgraded multiple machines and had a few issues here and there which > I have filed as bugs or found existing bugs on. Most have been fixed or are > in progress. > > Looking forward to 10.04 :) > > Cheers, > Al. > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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