[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu best version

jan at verslank.net jan at verslank.net
Mon Apr 14 14:45:56 UTC 2014


Sounds good. Many thanks to all. 
 
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From: "Leon Gert Marincowitz" <lmarincowitz at gmail.com>
Date: 4/14/14 3:34 pm
To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>

 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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 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>
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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
 
 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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 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
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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
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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
 
 
 
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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>
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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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