First impressions of 11.04

[NoOp]

On 04/17/2011 11:26 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> I have to give credit where credit is due. I took a Dell 64-bit laptop
> and did a Net. upgrade from the current Ubuntu with Gnome to 11.4. It
> went flawlessly when it rebooted, including keeping VLC and other
> software I had installed. I was concerned that Turboprint, which is a
> commercial application - one which I don't care to do without because of
> it's many functions that NO OTHER output to printer supports, mostly
> with Gimp - was going to not only still be on the system but function
> properly.....it is and does. Another, Bibble 5, also is still installed
> and functions fine. Even the extra screen savers I had installed are
> still available and work.

Won't matter much to me...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/UnityHardwareRequirements
I've 4 2.4Ghz machines with 768 to 3GB of memory +

*-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
                version: a3
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master
cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1
mingnt=5
                resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff
memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f4780000-f47fffff memory:fe9e0000-fe9fffff

graphic cards. The nVidia cards do just fine with all GNOME/Compiz on
10.10 that I throw at them now. Yes, they are old, but the NV25GL
[Quadro4 900 XGL]'s are workstation cards & I reckon that there are
still quite a few floating around today.

11.04 (daily beta2 as of today) liveCD claims that it can't run Unity
(not that I really want it to at this point, but that's another
issue)... go figure.

IMO 11.04 is destined to be the 'Vista' of Ubuntu. Basically you can't
run our 'new & improved' desktop unless you contribute to global
waste/landfills & buy 'new & improved' hardware in the process. What a
bunch of crap.