Ubuntu - Latest version14.04

[Colin Law]

On 11 June 2014 18:31, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 June 2014 18:33, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you had to use Unity 2D on 12.04 because the graphics h/w did not
>> support 3D then you may not be able to run Unity in 14.04 (2D is no
>> longer available).  Check by booting from a live CD before upgrading.
>> You may find that you will need to use one of the other UIs on that
>> machine if you want to upgrade.
>
> If hardware OpenGL isn't available, AIUI X uses software 3D rendering.
> It all should still work, just slower.
>
> It's not as slow as software OpenGL was a few years ago - now, there
> is an optimised LLVM renderer. However, this works best on fast
> multicore machines -- exactly the sort of machine that probably /does/
> have 3D hardware, and therefore precisely the opposite of the sort of
> machine where you might actually need this software rendering.

Yes you are right, it should work.  However my experience with an old
machine that ran Unity 2d fine was that s/w rendering was effectively
unusable as it was so slow.  I will have to try again however as it is
some months since I last gave it a go.  I suspect it will still be so
slow that something like Lubuntu is much better.

Colin