Hi Craig, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 03:15:31PM +0100, Craig Nicholson wrote: > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been out for a while now, what do you think of it > and have you found any solutions to bugs that can help people out?
Last week I did an upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS on my desktop. I never had any significant problems on my desktop, but the packages in 8.04 were feeling very outdated and missing a lot of functionality that I liked, which was why I upgraded. I think I approve of the new colour scheme and design. The new window button position is going to take some time to get used to, but I'm willing to give it a go and see what Canonical have ins tore for future window indicators, rather than stick with my old theme that has the buttons in the familiar position. I run a Gnome desktop but have tended to use a couple of KDE apps. Once such app is Kaffeine, the media player, just because I preferred its usability when compared to the Gnome one. After upgrade, Kaffeine stopped being able to prevent the screensaver coming on. I understand this is a documented bug to do with Kaffeine no longer giving the correct D-Bus commands or something, and requires use of the new version of Kaffeine which some consider not yet ready for prime times. As it happens I find the media player in Gnome to now be more usable, so I've stopped using Kaffeine. There seems to be some sort of problem now with playing music as a different user while (I think Flash in) Firefox is running in another user's session. For example, we sometimes play movies from the computer and we do so from my account rather than my girlfriend's. So I switch user to me and press play, but occasionally either it doesn't start or it starts but with no sound. I then switch back to her and close her Firefox, and then the movie sound starts in mine. I haven't yet searched for this bug or reported it. Earlier this week I upgraded my laptop from 9.04 to 9.10 to 10.04. It took several hours, but worked very well. I'm really impressed that they managed to make that work smoothly. My laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 8918-DFG with nVidia graphics, has had two major problems for which there are bugs opened. Firstly, the onboard wifi, an Intel 4695 stopped working around Ubuntu 9.04. I've been using a PC wifi card since then. Secondly, hibernate to disk has never managed to resume correctly. I've been using suspend to RAM, which is good for 6-8 hours. With the new 10.04 I'm glad to report that my wifi works again, so I've been able to ditch the PC wifi card. There's no change in my hibernate issue, though I expect that's to do with the use of binary nvidia driver. I need to check the progress of the nouveau driver again to see if it's good enough for general 2d usage yet. I use Debian for servers so am unable to report first hand experiences of server upgrades. I've provisioned quite a few 10.04 VPSes in the last few weeks though, and done some upgrades for existing Ubuntu customers, and all appears to be working well. 10.04 has seen a major improvement in stability under Xen for me. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "Reinventing the wheel is bad not only because it wastes time, but because reinvented wheels are often square." -- Henry Spencer
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