First impressions of 11.04

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:10 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/17/2011 11:26 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>> I have to give credit where credit is due. I took a Dell 64-bit laptop
>> and did a Net. upgrade from the current Ubuntu with Gnome to 11.4. It
>> went flawlessly when it rebooted, including keeping VLC and other
>> software I had installed. I was concerned that Turboprint, which is a
>> commercial application - one which I don't care to do without because of
>> it's many functions that NO OTHER output to printer supports, mostly
>> with Gimp - was going to not only still be on the system but function
>> properly.....it is and does. Another, Bibble 5, also is still installed
>> and functions fine. Even the extra screen savers I had installed are
>> still available and work.
>
> Won't matter much to me...
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/UnityHardwareRequirements
> I've 4 2.4Ghz machines with 768 to 3GB of memory +
>
> *-display
>                description: VGA compatible controller
>                product: NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL]
>                vendor: nVidia Corporation
>                physical id: 0
>                bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>                version: a3
>                width: 32 bits
>                clock: 66MHz
>                capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master
> cap_list rom
>                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1
> mingnt=5
>                resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff
> memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f4780000-f47fffff memory:fe9e0000-fe9fffff
>
> graphic cards. The nVidia cards do just fine with all GNOME/Compiz on
> 10.10 that I throw at them now. Yes, they are old, but the NV25GL
> [Quadro4 900 XGL]'s are workstation cards & I reckon that there are
> still quite a few floating around today.
>
> 11.04 (daily beta2 as of today) liveCD claims that it can't run Unity
> (not that I really want it to at this point, but that's another
> issue)... go figure.
>
> IMO 11.04 is destined to be the 'Vista' of Ubuntu. Basically you can't
> run our 'new & improved' desktop unless you contribute to global
> waste/landfills & buy 'new & improved' hardware in the process. What a
> bunch of crap.

Although IMO one cannot properly contribute by just agreeing, just a
waste of good bandwidth to do so, on this subject I'd like to make an
exception, thus:

+1

Amazing hardware requirements. Unity (still) sucks.

(even though last week's Beta accepted my humble NVidia 8200 without complaint)

L.

-- 
Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu