-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23/04/12 19:59, Pete Smout wrote: > On 23/04/12 18:52, Dave Morley wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 23/04/12 18:37, Pete Smout wrote: >>> Hi, Just thought I'd feedback my 12.04 experiences so far. >>> >>> Ubuntu will not install on any of the 3 machines tried on so >>> far! Gets as far as asking for user name / psswd and then says >>> error! tried 2 different downloads so I think its the system >>> not the .iso image >>> >>> Xubuntu 12.04 (Beta 2) installs first time no trouble at all >>> and although I haven't tested everything yet my first >>> impressions are 'Wow why would anybody use Unity on a PC or >>> Laptop!' >>> >>> I hope this situation is not the same for first time installers >>> as if it was my first experience I would probably still be a >>> Windoze user! >>> >>> Still unsure weather or not to upgrade my main machine from >>> 10.04 as I personally cannot see the benefit of unity on a PC >>> (and two years on I have Lucid set just how I want it!) >>> >>> Reagrds >>> >>> Pete >>> >>> >> >> Pete, >> >> Hi bugs like that are really important to report. There are lots >> of things it could be that cause the system to die but without >> your machines to try it out on nobody will know for sure. >> >> > > Hi, > > At this late stage of Beta testing (release only about 1 week away) > I would expect my fairly standard machines to be ok, machine specs > are > > PC - Dual core (AMD) 3gb ram Lappy - Dual core (intel) 2gb ram Old > PC - Pentium 4, 1.5gb ram > > the makes of the motherboards are unmemorable / unremarkable > > With the exception of the 'Old PC' (which may be too old now , > although I doubt it, this is Linux not windoze) surely IT SHOULD > JUST WORK! If it was still Alpha I would of course report the > bug(s) but it is too late now to effect the release (I believe). > > I will of course try when the release is official (on 29th I think) > but surely these machine specs are not so new as no-one else in the > world has them, if the machines were brand new core i7's or the > latest 'gadget' machines I may well expect a few issues, but I am > neither wealthy enough, or that bothered by the 'lack of > performance' of my aging hardware to worry about 'keeping up with > the metaphorical Jones's'. > > Regards > > Pete > > That would normally be the case however this is supported for 5 years on the desktop and there will undoubtedly be a lot of SRU's and fixes going into the release so I see no reason why it would be looked into. And maybe a fixed release in the standard update process, I hope that makes sense.
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