[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version
Leon Gert Marincowitz
lmarincowitz at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 13:34:51 UTC 2014
Hi
I followed the development of Trusty. It seems to have a ton if things that
are more refined. Its also the capstone of unity as introduced in Natty and
ending now with Unity 7.
Small things like header bars are optionally moved from top if acreen to
top of app open. Small things like that.
In terms of SSD they did introduce something specific. I think its called
trim not sure, anyway the hardware/software level there's a difference. You
can Google it.
Also trusty will be an iterative upgrade from Saucy. Which is found
incredible stable. Also its an LTS so there shouldn't be any problems.
Leon G. Marincowitz
Apologies for brevity, sent from smartphone
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:19:36 -0700
> From: jan at verslank.net
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> Your experienced comments please:
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> I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad experiences with 12.10.
> My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until 2017, so the question is
> perhaps premature, however, I am planning to transfer to a SSD (solid state
> drive) shortly and would appreciate some feedback to help me decide whether
> I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade to a newer version, especially
> considering that the next LTS version has been available for some time.
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> Many thanks,
>
> Jan
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:42:56 +0200
> From: Percy Langa <percylanga at gmail.com>
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> On 2014/04/14 12:19 PM, jan at verslank.net wrote:
> > Your experienced comments please:
> > I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad experiences with
> > 12.10. My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until 2017, so the
> > question is perhaps premature, however, I am planning to transfer to a
> > SSD (solid state drive) shortly and would appreciate some feedback to
> > help me decide whether I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade to a
> > newer version, especially considering that the next LTS version has
> > been available for some time.
> Hi Jan,
>
> Unless your require something specific on the latest LTS [1], I would
> stick with 12.04.
>
> Of course, the other option is to dual boot [2] between the two LTSs and
> decide from there.
>
> Notes:
> 1. The next LTS is scheduled for release this week (17/04).
> 2. Assuming you have enough space on the SDD and the time to experiment.
>
> Cheers,
> Percy
>
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:57:30 +0000
> From: William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version
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> Hi Jan,
>
> 14.04 will be out on 17 April ( Thursday this week), support is until 2019
>
> Could be your Long Weekend project, install 14.04
>
> I have been using it for aprox 2 months
>
> I don't have an SSD, but support for things like SSDs, should be better
>
> I don't know if you like Unity, I do, and it has improved
>
> Don't know what apps you use, here are some apps to install in 14.04
> shutter - feature-rich screenshot program
> classicmenu-indicator - drop down menu - creates an Ubuntu Icon top right
> glabels - label, business card and media cover creation program for GNOME
> gimagereader - A graphical GTK frontend to tesseract-ocr - OCR
>
> local SA places to download 14.04 from
> http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ubuntu-cdimage/
> http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-release/
> ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/releases/
> http://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/
> There are others
>
> William
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> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version
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> Your experienced comments please:
>
> I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad experiences with 12.10.
> My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until 2017, so the question is
> perhaps premature, however, I am planning to transfer to a SSD (solid state
> drive) shortly and would appreciate some feedback to help me decide whether
> I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade to a newer version, especially
> considering that the next LTS version has been available for some time.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jan
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:05:34 +0200
> From: Miles <msdomdonner at gmail.com>
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> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 03:19 -0700, jan at verslank.net wrote:
> > Your experienced comments please:
> >
> > I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad experiences with
> > 12.10. My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until 2017, so the
> > question is perhaps premature, however, I am planning to transfer to a
> > SSD (solid state drive) shortly and would appreciate some feedback to
> > help me decide whether I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade to a
> > newer version, especially considering that the next LTS version has
> > been available for some time.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Jan
> Hi oom Jan. not much experience here but i have been running 14.04 for
> about 2 weeks now. Some things have changed but it is better than 12.04
> imo. And its always fun to try new things anyway, so if the ssd is spare
> atm try 14.04 out.
> Miles
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 04:30:01 -0700
> From: jan at verslank.net
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> Many thanks Miles.
>
> Can you pse be a bit more specific about what is better than on 12.04?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jan
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> From: "Miles" <msdomdonner at gmail.com>
> Date: 4/14/14 1:05 pm
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 03:19 -0700, jan at verslank.net wrote:
> > Your experienced comments please:
> >
> > I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad experiences with
> > 12.10. My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until 2017, so the
> > question is perhaps premature, however, I am planning to transfer to a
> > SSD (solid state drive) shortly and would appreciate some feedback to
> > help me decide whether I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade to a
> > newer version, especially considering that the next LTS version has
> > been available for some time.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Jan
> Hi oom Jan. not much experience here but i have been running 14.04 for
> about 2 weeks now. Some things have changed but it is better than 12.04
> imo. And its always fun to try new things anyway, so if the ssd is spare
> atm try 14.04 out.
> Miles
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> Many thanks William and Percy.
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> From: "William Walter Kinghorn" <williamk at dut.ac.za>
> Date: 4/14/14 12:57 pm
> To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> 14.04 will be out on 17 April ( Thursday this week), support is until 2019
>
> Could be your Long Weekend project, install 14.04
>
> I have been using it for aprox 2 months
>
> I don't have an SSD, but support for things like SSDs, should be better
>
> I don't know if you like Unity, I do, and it has improved
>
> Don't know what apps you use, here are some apps to install in 14.04
> shutter - feature-rich screenshot program
> classicmenu-indicator - drop down menu - creates an Ubuntu Icon top right
> glabels - label, business card and media cover creation program for GNOME
> gimagereader - A graphical GTK frontend to tesseract-ocr - OCR
>
> local SA places to download 14.04 from
> http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ubuntu-cdimage/
> http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-release/
> ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/releases/
> http://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/
> There are others
>
> William
>
>
>
> From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of jan at verslank.net [
> jan at verslank.net]
> Sent: 14 April 2014 12:19
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version
>
>
> Your experienced comments please:
>
> I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad experiences with 12.10.
> My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until 2017, so the question is
> perhaps premature, however, I am planning to transfer to a SSD (solid state
> drive) shortly and would appreciate some feedback to help me decide whether
> I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade to a newer version, especially
> considering that the next LTS version has been available for some time.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:46:17 +0200
> From: Miles <msdomdonner at gmail.com>
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> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 04:30 -0700, jan at verslank.net wrote:
> > Many thanks Miles.
> >
> > Can you pse be a bit more specific about what is better than on 12.04?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Jan
> >
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> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version
> > From: "Miles" <msdomdonner at gmail.com>
> > Date: 4/14/14 1:05 pm
> > To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> >
> > On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 03:19 -0700, jan at verslank.net wrote:
> > > Your experienced comments please:
> > >
> > > I have reverted to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after some bad
> > experiences with
> > > 12.10. My 12.04 is still doing fine and support is until
> > 2017, so the
> > > question is perhaps premature, however, I am planning to
> > transfer to a
> > > SSD (solid state drive) shortly and would appreciate some
> > feedback to
> > > help me decide whether I should remain with 12.04 or upgrade
> > to a
> > > newer version, especially considering that the next LTS
> > version has
> > > been available for some time.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > > Jan
> > Hi oom Jan. not much experience here but i have been running
> > 14.04 for
> > about 2 weeks now. Some things have changed but it is better
> > than 12.04
> > imo. And its always fun to try new things anyway, so if the
> > ssd is spare
> > atm try 14.04 out.
> > Miles
> >
> On my machine just about everything runs smoother and maybe a bit faster
> Jan. only xchat sound alerts didnt work so I installed hexchat, but my
> evo mail is quicker and it seems to boot faster. and doesnt slow down as
> much as 12.04 used to when trying to open some apps. But its very stable
> so the official release can only be better
>
>
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