First impressions of 11.04

[Fred A. Miller]

On 04/18/2011 11:10 PM, NoOp wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

There could be a legal problem with including any nVidia commercial
drivers.
It's the only logical non-boneheaded reason that they aren't included on
the
live image ISO.

Fred

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