At some point this thread digressed from the original topic, but I guess that's fine. <br><br>As suggested earlier I posted my concern on the ubuntu devel mailing list. Apparently all of them are known issues and they are working on them.<br>
<br>I switched the desktop to regular Ubuntu Desktop and am happy once again. There was a huge performance improvement, even flash plays a lot smoother. I never realized that poor performance of flash was due to Unity.<br>
<br>A not for all the noobs. Please DO NOT install the Netbook Edition on your netbooks or nettops. It's pathetically slow and doing so runs the risk of giving you a bad impression of Ubuntu and Linux. Ubuntu is an amazing distribution of Linux and Linux in general is awesome.<br>
<br>Thanks for all the comments.<br><br>Thanks,<br clear="all">Tarun<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Glenn Holmer <<a href="mailto:shadowm@lyonlabs.org">shadowm@lyonlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 01:20 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:<br>
>> > Anyone know if this "Hurd" is more than vaporware? I mean after ten years<br>
>> > of "active development".....<br>
>><br>
>> IMHO, it was wind from the backside of Stallman trying to be relevant,<br>
>> long after the horse left the barn, when Linus made his gift to the<br>
>> world. Linus made it happen. Linux will become what we allow it to<br>
>> become. Just as in politics. Ric<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
</div>It's a good story. It's not actually entirely *true* but it's a good story.<br>
<br>
Yes, when the GNU Project decided to write a kernel, Linux did not<br>
exist yet. True.<br>
<br>
But there /was/ a free and Free Unix kernel that *did* already exist.<br>
They considered it, looked at it, decided not to adopt it and went for<br>
something else.<br>
<br>
The result was that the Free Unix-alike OS was not ready and usable<br>
except for specialists until about 1996 or '97 and not by only<br>
moderately-technical types until '98 when KDE 1.0 appeared.<br>
<br>
The kernel that the GNU Project decided not to go with was BSD.<br>
<br>
Although this was long before FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and so on, BSD<br>
had existed for 15 years or more and was widely used (with full<br>
sources available) in the US academic system. Unfortunately, it<br>
contained copyright code from AT&T and thus was not Free.<br>
<br>
But the GNU team didn't want the rest of the OS - they already had<br>
utilities, a compiler, an editor, etc. Most of a "userland". They just<br>
wanted a kernel.<br>
<br>
They could have gone for the BSD kernel, sorted out the licensing<br>
difficulties and started work on a complete Free Unix at the end of<br>
the '90s - but they chose not to. They decided to write their own, and<br>
worse still, chose a particularly ambitious design (not that they were<br>
to know that at the time).<br>
<br>
The statement on <a href="http://gnu.org" target="_blank">gnu.org</a> carefully omits that bit, which is a shame,<br>
as it's rather important.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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