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    Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 3 Anyone?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Thomas, Jan 18, 2009.

  1. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Installing Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha 3 on my laptop right now, will give a summary of it when it gets done, is anyone else running/tried it?
     
    Thomas, Jan 18, 2009
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    Eragon16x Notebook Guru

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    dang, i just installed intrepid ibex on my laptop a week ago too...wow i love how fast ubuntu is updated, is there any new gui improvements?
     
    Eragon16x, Jan 18, 2009
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  3. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Jaunty is in Alpha... meaning it's not at all ready for public use. Alpa is pre beta.
     
    Hep!, Jan 18, 2009
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  4. Thomas

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    I know Gnome and KDE are updated to the latest versions, which means KDE 4.2, don't remember the gnome version. You can also install it on ext4 partitions :)
     
    Thomas, Jan 18, 2009
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    Yea i know that, but its just awesome how fast alpha, beta, and the final product is released in the ubuntu world
     
    Eragon16x, Jan 19, 2009
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  6. Thomas

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    Well I've been on Ubuntu 9.04 A3 for a while now and it seems very solid for an alpha release, fixes some issues from 8.10, though there are a few bugs of course they seemed to have slowly worked themselves out.
     
    Thomas, Jan 19, 2009
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    I know they've been looking to improve battery life.
    How's power management OOB on Jaunty?
     
    Hep!, Jan 19, 2009
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    I'm not sure, havent used it on battery yet.
    This thing is bloody fast, boot up took 14 seconds.
     
    Thomas, Jan 19, 2009
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    Meh. I have arch. Rolling-release ftw!

    But a 14 second boot you say? hmmmm......
     
    zephyrus17, Jan 19, 2009
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    What size and speed of hard drive?
     
    notyou, Jan 19, 2009
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    It's a Dell 1501. So it's probably a 160Gb 5400RPM
     
    zephyrus17, Jan 19, 2009
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    Jaunty comes with Open Office 3 and faster boot/response. I'm sure there are a lot more coming up though.
     
    visiom88, Jan 19, 2009
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    That doesn't help much since (I assume) most of us here on NBR have done upgrades, so what's to say he hasn't upgraded it.

    However, if that's true, that's insane.

    EDIT: I just reinstalled Ibex the other day, I just might have to wipe it and try out JJ.
     
    notyou, Jan 19, 2009
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  14. Thomas

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    It's actually a 60GB 5400RPM drive not very big and It's pretty slow.
    It's also only ext3, I didn't care to go ext4 haha.
    Everything starts up faster, not just the boot, I'll try to explain what I see when I see the boot bar.
    I see it going back and forth for about 3 seconds, then it starts building out of 100, and it's done in about 5 seconds or so.
     
    Thomas, Jan 19, 2009
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    That's amazing, I'll have to install it later today and test drive it.
    (To think, I'll only have pre-release OSes on my comp then)
     
    notyou, Jan 19, 2009
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    You're right, this thing is a speed demon.

    EDIT: I now only have beta/alpha OSes on my laptop (yes, I have a relatively new backup).
     
    notyou, Jan 19, 2009
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