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Hi folks,Well the laptop for my folks has arrived, I'm just backing up Windows 7 *just in case* they don't get on with Ubuntu (although saying that they aren't used to computers so it should be easy enough to just show them Ubuntu/Gnome).
Now I did find an issue with CloneZilla (Jaunty I think) on this new laptop where it wouldn't boot. So I figured, right time to try Lucid. I'd tried daily builds of Lucid before in Virtualbox but they wouldn't boot, so I wasn't sure what was going to happen.
So I downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha daily build 18th March 2010. Created a bootable SD card (no USB sticks handy!) and proceeded to boot.
First of all the isolinux boot menu is different, it still asks for language but it seems to just sit there for a couple of seconds until I press enter. Not sure if that's me, I didn't really look at it much, might be just me being impatient.
Other than that the logo has changed and it's purple.So I selected the option to boot without installing (can't remember the exact wording) and up came a new fancy Ubuntu splash screen with the new logo on a purple background with some dots. All in all it took about 30 seconds or so to boot. Much quicker than CD and without the drop down to a text console for some debug messages which I got on Ubuntu 9.10.
The actual switch from the splash screen to the desktop was seamless, I didn't even realise X had started until I heard the Ubuntu startup sound. I'm not sure if it's using Plymouth but it was certainly fancy.
The desktop looks pretty much the same, the colour scheme has changed a bit to a light grey colour which will take a bit of getting used to. The background is purple but the icons still have the brown theme which TBH I didn't think went too well, but I can't do any better so I can't argue with it.
The window title bars are different, the minimise/maximise/restore/close buttons are on the left hand side.
That was about as far as I got, I had to get on with sorting the machine out but I'm planning on having another play tomorrow.
The machine in question is an Acer Extensa 5635Z with Pentium Dual Core 2.1GHz CPU, Broadcom ethernet, Atheros Wireless and Intel GMA4500M graphics.
I did notice some flickering, I put this down to Compiz although I will investigate further tomorrow. At least I can say the wireless and Bluetooth (which my notebook doesn't have!) works out of the box. I'm guessing the webcam will too, but I'll find out tomorrow.
So yeah, initial impressions of Ubuntu 10.04 and this notebook are very good.
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