[ubuntu-us-ma] Oneiric Release

[Seth Woodworth]

Hi all.

So far I am unclear what upgrading to Oneiric has brought me, outside
of the ability to run Gnome-shell.  I have a Lenovo t410s with
switchable graphics.  I've given up being able to use the dedicated
graphics chipset, and use the i915 instead.  i915 isn't sufficient to
run Unity proper, and while I was running Unity-2d in 11.04, I was
only able to get it to launch successfully 1/3 of the time.  Otherwise
I would have to try to relaunch it from the terminal multiple times
until hopefully I would get the top and left panel.

Gnome-shell, so far, has been great.  It's a new/modern minimal
interface, only taking up the top row of my screen (and no pop-over
bar when I get an IM, yay!).  I'm really impressed with the
notification system.  It needs a bit of work, it is inconsistent with
the rest of the desktop experience in what it responds to, but
otherwise is a +1.

I'm planning on rebuilding a computer lab of ~1.8ghz & 512mb computers
with Ubuntu in the next couple of weeks.  But with the Unity push,
does Ubuntu still support that old of machine?

--Seth

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Corey Goldberg
<corey.goldberg at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 08:38 -0400, Adam Hathaway wrote:
>>  I just wanted to see how everyone's experience with the newly
>>  Installed Oneiric is going?
>
> +1 for Oneiric and a smooth release.
>
> I installed 11.10 on my 2 laptops with no problems.  I'm doing my main
> desktop this weekend.  Unity seems to be much more polished than it was
> in Natty.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved!
>
> -Corey
>
>
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