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On 18 March 2010 15:35, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yeah thats the new usplash it came in with Karmic. > > 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. You could try http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=121 for a new theme. Download, then drop the tar.gz into the theme dialog to install it. > > The window title bars are different, the minimise/maximise/restore/close > buttons are on the left hand side. > Hmm, annoying. > 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. > > Rob Cool. I'm stuck running Mint7 (Jaunty based) on this laptop as Karmic/Mint8 Kernel Panic. Might try it out on the desktop at some point when I'm not drowning in assignments. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html