[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version
William Walter Kinghorn
williamk at dut.ac.za
Mon Apr 14 13:55:56 UTC 2014
Hi Jan,
Have a look at this site : http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
Look her for Ubuntu 14.04<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/tag/trusty-tahr> related articles on the site
Like :
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/trim-ssd-support-enabled-ubuntu-14-04
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/expect-ubuntu-14-04-lts
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/unity-lockscreen-ubuntu-14-04
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/minimize-click-launcher-option-ubuntu-14-04
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/7-ubuntu-14-04-lts-improvements-youll-love
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/enable-minimise-click-unity-7-ubuntu-14-04
William
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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
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:19:36 -0700
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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 12:42:56 +0200
From: Percy Langa <percylanga at gmail.com<mailto:percylanga at gmail.com>>
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On 2014/04/14 12:19 PM, jan at verslank.net<mailto: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<mailto:williamk at dut.ac.za>>
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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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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<mailto:msdomdonner at gmail.com>>
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On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 03:19 -0700, jan at verslank.net<mailto: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 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<mailto:msdomdonner at gmail.com>>
Date: 4/14/14 1:05 pm
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On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 03:19 -0700, jan at verslank.net<mailto: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<mailto:williamk at dut.ac.za>>
Date: 4/14/14 12:57 pm
To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com<mailto: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
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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<mailto:msdomdonner at gmail.com>>
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On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 04:30 -0700, jan at verslank.net<mailto: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<mailto:msdomdonner at gmail.com>>
> Date: 4/14/14 1:05 pm
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com<mailto:ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 03:19 -0700, jan at verslank.net<mailto: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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