Comments on: My Jaunty Adventure

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:14:54 +0000

I definitely prefer my Mac, but they gave me a Dell for work. So, I've been trying to make it work. Right now though, running a VM (VPN'ed into the network) on my Mac to avoid the random freezing issues is way better.

It's too bad b/c I really Ubuntu. Think I'll have to bite the bullet and either downgrade to Intrepid or put CrunchBang on it.

By: Jauder Ho

Jauder Ho — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:01:14 +0000

At this point, I think I prefer using a Mac as a front end and sshing to a Linux box. Best of both worlds. Still on Hardy though since all the Linux boxes are servers.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:32:44 +0000

Thanks, glad you like it.

By: terrywang

terrywang — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:55:43 +0000

The new connect rocks. Good job;-)

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:27:08 +0000

Thanks for pointing me to the tips. I haven't been monitoring that group, too busy fixing bugs, etc.

Linux is definitely not for the faint-hearted, e.g. my Intrepid update went smoothly, yours did not. My Jaunty upgrade is a fail, yours was fine.

Even so, I still think open source rules.

By: terrywang

terrywang — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:23:34 +0000

That's weird. I guess it may be related to the Intel Integrated Graphic Driver. Someone posted workaround on Connect.

I did the upgrade for my D620/D630 and Dell Precision Workstation in person, they all went smoothly. Faster boot, better sound solution (the D6X0 built-in mic works with Skye now), Compiz Fusion bugs were fixed.

I am happy with Jaunty. To me the upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid was not pleasant. Too many bugs and degraded performance. So I switched back to Gentoo for a while. Now I am with Ubuntu again because of APT and PPA:-)

U r right, Linux is an OS for its enthusiasts, DIY spirit required:-)

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:46:33 +0000

Ack, you guys are killing me.

I'm thinking my issue is either KVM or wireless related. When it freezes, all those blinky lights are flashing. I wish I had time to diagnose and fix it or downgrade.

Not happening though.

By: EspenBG

EspenBG — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:25:37 +0000

I have one more success story; I couldn't resist the upgrade option after having ignored it for a few days, and tried first at my old private Dell Inspiron 9200 with ATI. Did find any issues at all, just the smoothest upgrade I've ever seen (since my first SunOS upgrade test in 1998), so last week I did the same with the office Dell Inspiron 1720 (64-bit and Nvidia).

Next and last is the desktop machine, the only one with an AMD processor. Things might still go wrong..

I'm running Kubuntu, by the way.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:27:38 +0000

Lots of upgrade success stories. Wishing I were one of them I really need to find time to start over from scratch, or to switch over to CrunchBang per Rich's advice.

It's getting old.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:26:25 +0000

Yeah, the boot time is definitely faster, he said recovering from yet another crash. I wonder if KVM is causing the problem.

By: Graham Hewett

Graham Hewett — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:35:40 +0000

I upgraded with no problems, compiz included. I also upgraded my mythtv box, the only issue I had there was going from Hardy to intrepid first where it overwrote my xorg.conf. Booting is much faster, which is a real boon on the myth box (my wife keeps shutting it down to save energy).

By: andrejk

andrejk — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:31:31 +0000

I upgraded with no problems, but had compiz turned off before upgrading: compiz doesn't work well with mirrored screens or doing presentations on a beamer. Best new feature: jaunty seems to be a bit faster than 8.10.

By: manalang

manalang — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:12:38 +0000

On VPN right now

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:34:56 +0000

Heh, see Rich's comment re. CrunchBang, his new favorite distro.

The bummer part is that Linux distros are still a lot work, but that's the fun part too, if you have the time.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:33:16 +0000

Yeah, I forgot to plug your new favorite distro. Installing it on a VM. You have VPN working yet? Seems like it should.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:04:56 +0000

I upgraded. I was on Hardy, but the promise of faster boot up time attracted me to Jaunty. I tried the 'Upgrade' button guessing that I might have to go through Intrepid before getting to Jaunty. Instead it decided that 99% of my packages had to be uninstalled and left me something that didn't have bash, apt or anything usable or even fixable.
So I did a fresh install of Jaunty. I think I've recovered most of my stuff, settings etc. I think it is booting up faster, but that may be wishful thinking or the fact it has been decluttered a bit.

By: manalang

manalang — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:35:59 +0000

Advice: Ditch Ubuntu proper and go with CrunchBang. It's my new fav linux distro. It's still Ubuntu under the covers but with better default choices of apps and a lot more lightweight.