Hello, I have two roles in the ubuntu community: firstly, I am working with a computer manufacturer who sells machines with ubuntu. (we could put dell in shame: we already sold more than 300 thousand machines with ubuntu in brazil)
The second is as academic: I am doing a Ph.D. on advanced parallel computing, and I use linux daily on the research. While some of the scientific programs work out of box with ubuntu, several doesn't. It's not a problem of ubuntu, but instead of programs who relies on old libraries (old for the open software world, not fot the academia) This, however, doesn't matter now. What I have in mind is the compiz/fusion/whatever the name is now. I've tested gutsy with about 600 machines, all of them are regular machines, both from our research labs and machines who are currently being sold as "office machines". Let me tell you, we tried dozens of video card configurations, and except nvidia and ati (with SEVERAL exceptions), they mostly suck with gutsy when they did well for dapper or feisty. I've googled for disabling compiz, however most of them point to a system setting found on gnome menu. This is not enough to return the system to a state as good as feisty. In fact, when EVERY window opens up, it is possible to see two triangles (faces) appearing or leaving out for every window operation on a average machine *** *** Two machines in my hands now where gusty sucks: A PC, experimental 16-core pentium-d machine, 8g ram, three videocards: intel 945 for the first 4 processors (can't tell mode, nda) and two ati radeon x1800xt 512mb. This machine works fine with the ati driver, but with the intel one, shoot me. Another is a macbook core2duo, 2.16 gz, 2048m ram. Don't tell me this is not enough to move a window. -- [] Alexandre Strube [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
