[ubuntu-za] Intrepid to Jaunty

David Robert Lewis ethnopunk at telkomsa.net
Thu May 14 15:51:12 BST 2009


frans wrote:
> Alf Stockton wrote:
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>> Now that the community has had a bit of time looking at 9.04, is it worth 
>> upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04?
>> Please tell me what the advantages are?
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> Ive installed and had some issues, on board graphics card are not 
> supported by the ATI proprietary drivers anymore, so i had to upgrade my 
> Graphics card or go back to 8.10, i chose the first.
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> I also had some issues with a apic? i think which are not regocniced any 
> more, not that big a problem though, there are a error message of some 
> mod file being missing, witch i still have to look at.
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> Lastly on 64bit my system seemed unstable, it stopped working after a 
> few reboots, could be human error though.
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> The boot time are definitely much improofed, and there are the computer 
> janitor app to help keep your computer clean, another plus is the fact 
> that most of the programs you where running when you rebooted are now 
> opened by default at login. also the ext4 file system does seem to speed 
> up the boot even more.
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> As a home system i would think it very good, though I think as a 
> production system one should be keeping with 8.04 as recommended. :)
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> In the end the decision are up to you, i like it, and many others will. 
> There are not that much changes, but what there are are improvements.
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Please vote for Upgrade Tracker solution proposed for Idea #19529: 
Upgrade issues http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19529/



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