Comments on: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 review

By: dca

dca — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:16:54 +0000

i am surprised to read “GIMP is not removed yet” . What made you to write like that. It is one of the best tools available in Linux. I completely process all my photos using GIMP..visit this link http://www.flickr.com/groups/gimpusers/ .. there are so many people who are using gimp extensively and are very happy with it.. I am one among them

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:09:46 +0000

I’m suprised you say “performance of Firefox under Ubuntu is totally unacceptable” – I use Firefox on my Acer One Netbook (running UNR) and my Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop PC and it runs well on both. My only complaint with 9.10 has been the failure of Tomboy Synchronisation via UbuntuOne and I really hope this is being sorted out in 10.04, though the bug reports don’t show evidence of an imminent fix.

By: Weevil

Weevil — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:44:21 +0000

Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a great interface to my Aspire One! Don’t know what keeps you from ‘getting used to it’

By: shankara

shankara — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:26:06 +0000

Those who use GIMP are used to install software on the operating systems they use. So, removing GIMP from the default packages is not a big issue since it is available through its repositories and adding new packages are very easy in ubuntu. Rather than user applications it is better to add more drivers for different hardwares. Application softwares can be installed later if all the peripherals are working nicely. That is what a newbie needs.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:33 +0000

While I have not tested the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha, I needed to tell the people complaining about my understanding of the possible removal of GIMP. It is my understanding that they plan to remove GIMP from the applications that are installed by default, but it will still be available through the software repositories (sp?). Will it be an inconvience (sp?) for those people who use it regularly? Yes, but I’d categorize it as a minor one at best.

By: YISHU

YISHU — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:21:43 +0000

YOUR knowledge is o………in core pc’s

By: Jib

Jib — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:35:20 +0000

You might know this already, but it is possible to make UNR look just like the full version. I didn’t like the UNR style on my netbook, and after moving a few things around, I was able to make it look like the regular GNOME interface.

One trick I use a lot with UNR is to go into the PROPERTIES on each panel and check SHOW HIDE BUTTONS.

By doing this, I can slide each panel out of the way and get that extra bit of space back at the top and bottom of the screen when I really need it (like when watching videos and stuff).

By: oboltyo

oboltyo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:31:05 +0000

Chrome…to many things do not work properly in chrome, I have firefox on two netbooks and have not witnessed unacceptable speeds? GIMP – who wants it removed – anyone out there care to comment? I think this would be a major mistake – I use it all the time…

By: joeyjuviyani

joeyjuviyani — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:05:47 +0000

The Ubuntu 10.04 release is near. Recently the Ubuntu 10.04 final version was made avaialble to testers for testing.It is also known as Lucid Lynx. This technology supports kernel mode-setting for Linux kernel image boot more fluid between the boot and start X server. I am a Linux- Ubuntu user and I am very much eager to get the Ubuntu 10.04. I got the information about this from:
http://www.techarena.in/news/27123-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-made-available-testers.htm

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:38:29 +0000

Hey nice article, I hope GIMP is not removed. I use it almost daily. I was a bit unhappy that pidgin was removed in 9.10 but I just add it to my standard post install apt-get.

Cheers, Tony
http://failingit.com

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:08:55 +0000

As this is the very first alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 you can not expect everything to be working (even the website you downloaded the ISO from states that). Also it’s an LTS, meaning the this release is design to be stable enough to last 5 years, and thus won’t have the cutting edge packages installed by default (its the reason why they aren’t upgrading to GNOME 3).

L4Linux: they would have enough space if they removed mono (which is the only thing that absolutely needs to be removed).

quote from http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/05/byobu-20-released-project-formerly.html

After 54 mini-releases of screen-profiles-1, I’m pleased to declare a 2.0 release! I believe that the project is more stable, more feature-filled, and better performing than ever. screen-profiles has become much more than a fun little hack… I believe that it is ready for general usage.

Changing the Name of the Project

In conjunction with the 2.0 release, I am also renaming the project. The new name of the project and packages is byobu.

By: L4Linux

L4Linux — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:08:11 +0000

Chromium could be included, as it is open source.
But it won’t be bundled in Ubuntu Live-CD, because among other reasons, there is not enough space on the CD.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:41 +0000

the changes exceed your level of knowledge of computing.

they are called backend changes, changes you don’t necessarily see on the GUI.

OS =/= GUI frontend.

By: mpt

mpt — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:21:38 +0000

“I was expecting to see Chrome browser…”

“It would be nice if they would bundle Google Chrome web browser…”

I don’t understand what you mean. Were you expecting it because you think it would be nice? Did you propose it at UDS?

Did you know that Google Chrome is not open-source?