First Look At Ubuntu Linux 11.10 Beta

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by mack_guy911, Sep 4, 2011.

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  1. AlexC

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    Hello everyone

    I just replaced Ubuntu 11.04 for 11.10 in my dual-boot - removed 11.04 using Windows disk manager, and made i new install by simple choosing "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7" -

    i had some problems initially:

    1 - If i select the search for updates during the install, the installer will crash!! I tried it two times. To avoid this i just needed not to select the search for updates during the install.

    2 - After the install i had several "crashes" without doing nothing! To solve this i just needed to update the software - 270MB in more than 300 updates - (power button in the top-right, "update software")

    After this i had any problem so far... The system is very very responsive (i can feel a big difference when changing from Win7 to Ubuntu, and i have my Win7 with few programs and some tweaks). About Unity it seems to have improved since 11.04. It's a really wonderful, modern and functional desktop (although it have a little and rewarding learning curve).

    i would like to suggest that if someone find a problem with this beta version of Ubuntu 11.10, to describe it here and eventually how it was solved! That would be very helpful!
     
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  2. mack_guy911

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    thanks for info alex c

    i am trying it on live mode not installing it i give feed back after 2nd beta release

    things which are really need to have ubuntu guys attention on is heat on vmware it goes up to 60 C on starting and starting application which is pretty seriouse althou i agree it have speed and sensors get down pretty fast but same time it create lot of heat on sensors which is not good for specially for laptops

    second thing i find very strange it that 2 window borders left side buttons :D
     

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  3. Sputnik

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    This got fixed in the latest daily snapshot.
     
  4. vasa1

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    I must say that I'm impressed with the new changes, kudos to Canonical. Version 11.04 was horrible in my experience, far to unstable and clunky. Canonical was also planning to make a tablet-friendly interface right? Is it in this version?
     
  6. vasa1

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    11.04 was certainly not unstable for me.
     
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    I agree although I'm using Kubuntu. :thumb:
     
  8. linuxforall

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    Rock stable on two portables here, one AMD fusion netbook and one i7 laptop.
     
  9. Hungry Man

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    Unity (the only linux UI I can stand) was horribly unstable for me.
     
  10. Kerodo

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    I had no problems with 11.04 and Unity, other than my laptop brightness up/down function keys didn't work. Aside from that, it was fine for me..
     
  11. Hungry Man

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    So much didn't work out of the box with Ubuntu for me lol but I managed to fix most of it. Unfortunately I couldn't get a decent aero-snap with keyboard shortcuts to work and it crashed a ton and Unity gave weird graphical issues.

    I am hoping that 11.10 fixes some of the problems.
     
  12. Kerodo

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    I'm really looking forward to it too. They've had 6 months to perfect it, so it should be nice and polished by now.
     
  13. Hungry Man

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    lol well they have 6 months every release and it's still never been usable for me
     
  14. vasa1

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    Good one! Like all the other perfect operating systems around :)
     
  15. Kerodo

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    Of course nothing is perfect, but Ubuntu has always been one of the cleaner ones in my experience. Let's hope for the best guys... :)
     
  16. linuxforall

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    MS has years of development with highly paid testers plus public beta tests and it never works here, however a six month distro, even rolling releases of Debian works fine here.
     
  17. vasa1

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    Troll somewhere else.
     
  18. linuxforall

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    Question here is, has it ever really been used :doubt:
     
  19. dw426

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    No, we just like to screw with you and the rest of the "better than everybody else" numbskulls who run off at the mouth about how people who find fault with freaking code are wrong, lying, or just stupid....would you grow up please? Instead of "troll somewhere else" and other stupid comments, try asking what went wrong when people complain. You might actually for once be useful instead of being useless trolls yourselves. I know this post will be gone soon, I don't give a crap. Both of you deserve this post. If people like that are going to start becoming the norm, the forum isn't worth bothering with anyway. God help any Linux newbies that show up here.

    Linux isn't going to work on everyone's hardware nor on every configuration, whether you tools want to believe it or not. That's always been a problem of Linux and it'll be a problem of Linux until hardware and software vendors care more about the OS.
     
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  20. Martijn2

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    So someone who complains that he always has problems with Ubuntu "has never used it" (as if he's lying) while you say that Windows never works for you and the same thing can be said of you.

    @dw426, I agree with you that the trolling has increased lately but the mods are usually on it.

    Let's stay on-topic, someone please answers my previous answer ;)

    "Canonical was also planning to make a tablet-friendly interface right? Is it in this version?"
     
  21. vasa1

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    I think essentially the same stuff was posted more than once. Why? Are readers of this particular thread especially dense?

    Did even one post go into any sort of detail or provide any specifics?

    Why choose a thread about 11.10 to whine about 11.04? Why not open a fresh thread?

    It's the easiest thing to say this sucks and that is unstable.
     
  22. linuxforall

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    Yep, there is constructive criticism from the true user who is interested in developing and improvement of a software and then there is trolling, in this case its the later and only done by M$ trolls who have nothing but hatred and contempt, pure and simple. Those who are using and facing genuine issues post and get their solutions or move on to another options.
     
  23. linuxforall

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    First of all before you get of your egalitarian throne, look carefully who made that statement and yes, I fully agree with that as well. Linux newbies are helped more than anywhere else if they are genuine and not just trolling. Now go to the I LOVE WINDOWS 8 thread, I will post genuine example of a troll there for all M$ fans. Get off your ediotic silly ass of an attitude for once and learn to discern between fake and real or are you too egtarded for that. (sp on purpose)

    Ironically till today Linix out of the box supports more hardware than Windows ever did, especially older ones. One good example is Yamaha DXG cards, Windows with x64XP cut off support of those cards and Linux till today runs it happily ever after.
     
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  24. linuxforall

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    Of course Linux sucks...........for M$ trolls its a veritable nightmare.:argh:

    In this case it was a good old hackneyed general comment that Ubuntu doesn't work, no specifics nothing. Of course to a bleeding heart, that was genuine cry of help from a hapless newbie Linux user. How naive can one get really? :D
     
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  25. mack_guy911

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    sorry i didnt mean to offend you guys but being a ubuntu user since ubuntu 5 and seeing ubuntu reaches the great hight my exceptions with ubuntu are pretty high

    from 11.10 i can go back to ubuntu 10.04 but not to ubuntu 1 or 2

    unity/gnome 3 are big change for everyone specialy for power users its started the new era of ubuntu which may be welcome by many new users


    but same time the users who contributed from ubuntu 1 to ubuntu 10.10 where 10.10 is very good ubuntu release i still not say its then best one indeed it need improvement as well.

    but now things are like...........

    All hard work thrown to trash and started ..............something else let say new era of ubuntu 1.04 and 1.10 and

    you expect us to say OMG this cutie is so cute so cuddly ............much better than last 10 release

    than my ans is still big No lot of improvement needed even to come close to last 10 release stability usability security.....etc

    i didnt test beta 2 yet so i give my comments later on beta 2


    To ans that i say any distro it only take less than 1 min to decide if OS is for you or not (originally said by Steve Jobs i guess not me :D )

    although you being a power user you always give respect to distro for atleast rest 59 mins to change your 1st min impression about it by tweaking and putting more effort ..........etc things.
     
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