lunduke.com — Ubuntu 10.04 is our first Long Term Support release since early 2008 and it feels long overdue. And that is because desktop Linux has come a long, long way in the last two years.Just to give you one great example: Those amazing 3D desktop effects we all know and love? Those were not a part of Ubuntu 2 years ago. Thats right. 2-dimensional!
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fungie5May 3, 2010
It's a nice collection but you don't need the CLI for that stuff. I know it's much faster that way, but new users don't need to be exposed to the command line unless absolutely necessary (and it rarely is these days). I personally use this one whenever I do a fresh install of Ubuntu. <a class="user" href="http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/" rel="nofollow">http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/</a>
giyadMay 3, 2010
I do too, so my question to you is, which one do u use the most?I ask because I have a laptop with OS X, which I don't use that often, especially since i got my iPad (haven't needed my laptop much around the house except when it comes to flash), and then I dual boot my desktop with Windows and Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu a few months ago, finally got it setup the way I wanted and its been great, but... I find myself booting into Windows 7 most of the time (probably just because I've grown accustomed to it). plus I kind of do have to agree with hardeep1singh, there is nothing I can't do on Win7 that I can do on Ubuntu or Mac, especially like using MS Office, wine isn't that great... and MS Office right now is still superior to Google Docs, iWork, and OpenOffice.I'd like to know what you/other people do?
jsffiveMay 3, 2010
According to the info in Synaptic package manager, Google Earth doesn't "integrate well with a Debian system"...Fail.I'm glad I installed it on a blank hard drive. Getting Google Earth back is as simple as putting my PCLOS drive back in the computer. However, I do like how compiz integrates with ubuntu. It's much better than PCLOS in that regard. Videos play better with compiz on.
azathothhMay 4, 2010
ROFLCOPTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!just look at the release notes:<a class="user" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004</a>it's full of bugs
mickstephensonMay 5, 2010
$ sudo -s* enter password onceYou are now effectively root
bariusMay 6, 2010
Er...I'm a software engineer btw. I'm well aware of Vista's purported improvements, trust me when I say UAC is not one of them. I can list the real improvements if you like:1 - The new AERO desktop engine. This thing is truely awesome, I bow to it's incredible power and flexibility. Too bad Microsoft felt it necessary to prevent anyone from ever actually making use of it's powerful feature set. Anyone seen an Aero toolkit yet? No? I guess we just get to live with the pretty interface they gave us then.2 - The significantly revised NT kernel with less cruft: a) Win16 finally gone. Good riddance. b) GDI+ re-built/replaced from the ground up. This was very necessary for security as well as stability. However, it's also why Vista was so unstable at first. Every graphics driver had to be re-written from scratch to work on Vista. This meant a lot of new bugs in the drivers. I guess things are getting more stable now that Win7 is finally out. FYI, Win7 is what Vista should have been, had MS spent more time coding and less time proselytizing about their 'pretty interface'. c) Completely replaced networking stack. To date, no one has any clue why they did this. The existing stack was well tested, well secured and robust from years of improvement. Microsoft decided that wasn't good enough so they threw it out and started from scratch. You can thank this little gem for those ridiculous file-copy times that were standard issue when Vista was first released. MS has, since, improved this but the new stack is still less stable, less robust and likely less secure.3 - The way in which dll's (dynamic link libraries) are installed and called upon was changed. The reason is complicated, but in a nutshell, every program that runs on Windows uses some version of one or more DLL's. There can be as many versions of a DLL as there are stars in the sky. This is a problem if, for example, your computer has DLL v1.2 but a program needs v3.4 to run properly. In Windows XP what would happen is that the program would install v3.4 over top of v1.2 and if you were lucky none of the older programs would mind too much. Unfortunately, a lot of programs minded.The attempt to fix this in Vista was abysmally stupid (and was removed in Windows 7, fyi). Essentially, every version of every DLL (thousands and thousands) would be stored on the disk drive and a database would register what version a program needed (if the program attempted to install a new one, that would be added to the database and associated with the program). Of course, the result was pretty obvious to anyone who actually understand software. That is, the installed size of Windows grew about 10 fold. WinXP was about 2Gb installed fresh. WinVista is roughly 10Gb installed fresh, and it grows exponentially with every program you add to it.Clearly this was stupid stupid stupid. That's why it no longer exists in Win7. They went with another solution (not like XP), but we're only talking Vista so I won't elaborate.Here's a list of what sucked:1 - New DRM added to the kernel so that users cannot play videos/music/games/etc that are recognized as 'restricted' content without having a special encryption key to go with it. The idea being that legally obtained content would come with the key, while illegally obtained content would not. For the most part, Windows doesn't actually tell you it's doing anything at all, but if you download a music file, for example, and it came in 256kbps quality might only come out of your speakers at 64kbps quality. Windows won't tell you it's downgrading your experience because that would remind you how much Windows sucks. But it does do it. And it does suck.2 - A lot of support for third party networking and printing were removed with no warning to users. I got burned by this because I use Novell file servers. Novell provides it's own network client that can be installed in Windows, but it's bloated and tends to be a nuisance. Windows XP had a more basic version that was created by Microsoft and worked better in my opinion. However, this and many more features were removed, sometimes with no alternative to replace them. I still don't understand why they rewrote the networking stack in the first place. As for the printing API, well that really needed to be shot and buried anyways.Further reading <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_remo ...</a>If you read this far, congrats you're not a Microsoft shill. Unfortunately, you (3 others that replied above this) missed the point entirely. I said Vista was *sold on the basis of having a pretty interface*. And it was. Feel free to look up all the advertising spots Microsoft put out. Every ad put out to home consumers was about "it looks great" or "it feels great". Even the "I'm a PC!" ads didn't start until Win7 came around.Now, Apple at least advertised features other than the look and feel. A lot of their funny commercials were directed at Windows instability, it's poor security record, it's outdated *new* looks, etc. So, I can agree that Apple at least sorta sells Mac OSX on more than looks alone. However, I think it's fair to say that the most often quoted feature of Apple products (all kinds) is their 'style' and 'quality feel'. I don't recall any Mac user ever telling me how much they liked "feature X" because it changed their life. But I do recall many asking "why don't you have a Mac, aren't geeks supposed to think they're awesome?"
scabnabbitMay 9, 2010
I have noticed 10.04 chokes on zotac (itx for me) boards using nvidia integrated graphics with the proprietary packages.Running the updates from the command prompt gets 'X' back up (and testing shows it works) but there's still an error at the beginning. (As it is, it's a known bug that's being checked.)But compared to 9.10, it's much more responsive. Didn't care for the default theme, but a synaptic sweep on "gnome themes" later, and I'm set.Not perfect, but incredibly sweet so far.
xorlathorMay 11, 2010
You guys should check out Mixcraft or FL Studio, Cakewalk is ancient and inefficient - For Ubuntu, RoseGarden is pretty good as a DAW.
lostoverthereMay 16, 2010
Ssshhhh, this is Digg - no one actually reads the article.
Closed AccountJun 6, 2010
I run this as my sole OS, and I can do everything that I was able to do with Windows or Mac.