On 29 May 2010 10:51, Paul Roach <roa...@roachy.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > <snip> > The other day, I decided to rebuild one of my desktop machines, and > thought i'd see what was happening with Debian now (with a Desktop > environment), and was truly amazed - the boot times and responsiveness > were astounding compared to Lucid on the same hardware...it feels like > a new machine. I've got to wonder whether all the social networking > intergration, etc are the right direction for the project if it > damages performance....should these things be optional and not > included in a virgin install from the start? >
Hello Paul, All the developers I have now encouraged to use Lucid Lynx are very happy with the environment and find it fast and responsive. There was an issue with the Broadcom wireless driver if running live, but we worked around this. Personally I use Lucid on several Aspire revo's and two Eee PC laptops and find it even faster that 9.10, which itself had a slight increase of speed over 9.04. Initially I just had my Eee900 running Lucid as a comparison with 9.10 on the Eee 1000 and there was a noted speed increase with Lucid. Boot times on the revo's with Lucid are obscenely fast... to fast for me to remember to time them :-) I use the social media enhancements and find them very useful, I would be surprised if they are causing any significant load, I certainly cant see that when I look at the processes loading the system. I would prefer not to loose anything detracted from the current desktop/netbook version of Ubuntu as it seems to be pretty close the mark for the user groups I have been working with. l mainly use Ubuntu as a development environment for Java virtual machine languages and again Lucid seems more responsive than previous versions. Even the laptops still fly when running mysql, apache, glassfish, hudson, selenium, etc... I am amazed at what I can get the little EeePC to do. I like the way Ubuntu is going as a desktop and I also like having the xubuntu and severs versions available if I am creating virtual machines to run a specific set of services, eg version control, database server, etc. Whilst I grew up (in terms of Linux) with Debian and have fond memories of installing it instead of Windows 95, I have not felt the need to go back for several years. I do really appreciate the efforts that the debian community make and I doubt there would have been an Ubuntu distro with out them. I do note that you are using Ubuntu for a very different use case and hope that your issues are addressed in Ubuntu or you are happy with debian. Thank you. -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com
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