First impressions of 11.04

[NoOp]

On 04/19/2011 05:18 PM, Shaun Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 04/19/2011 10:14 AM, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
>> ...snip lots of whatever
>> >
>> > There are lots of Ubuntu derivatives which will stay with conventional
>> > Gnome even when Ubuntu abandons it next Fall.  The Mint guys are pretty
>> > conservative and will likely offer a very vanilla option if you like
>> > green vanilla.  But only for a while!  Commercial radio got started
>> > about 1920 and ruled for about 20 years, until TV nearly destroyed it in
>> > the early 1950s.  The desktop pc started around 1980 and ruled for more
>> > than 30 years; not bad.  That's the way things are.
>>
>> Sorry, but the majority of my machines are from idiots that were told
>> that they couldn't run MS Vista on them so they tossed them. Let's
>> see... 2.4Ghz Intel motherboards (can accomodate a 3.060GHZ CPU) that
>> can easily accomodate 4GB of RAM were running WinXPPro with only 512MB
>> of RAM... but "couldn't run Vista". So they tossed the machines. Go figure.
>>
>> I can't wait for all the new Ubuntu 11.04 Unity users machines so that I
>> can "upgrade" my test bed...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Really kinda getting out of hand here with this. I have several older
> machines that run unity just fine. with geforce cards like 5700 7600gs and a
> 5200. My main desktop has the 7600 and 2 gigs of ram my wife's has the 5700
> and 1 gig of ram and the kids has the oldest setup and it runs unity fine as
> well. All this babble about how it won't run or work is poppycock. If you
> are gonna talk nonsense wait til the final release install and see what it
> does then. I also have a laptop with a 8200 mobile nvidia with 2 gigs and it
> runs unity just fine too. I personally run xfce, mimic or xmonad on my
> machines but that is personal choice more than the fact the things don't
> work.

Excuse me? If you bother to search the archives for this list you'll
find that I've been testing (as a user) nearly every Ubuntu pre-release
since Dapper. I see that your first post to this list was 07/26/2010...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/UnityHardwareRequirements
If you're "going to talk nonsense", I suggest that you first review the
hardware requirements at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/UnityHardwareRequirements

My point here is that _unless_ the Unity hardware requirements change
(and they won't for 11.04) there will be quite a lot of existing Ubuntu
users that will not be running Unity.
  That may be a good thing under normal circumstances, however I can
guarantee that it won't be in this case. Why? Well because all of the
forward development work/bug fixes et al will be concentrated on Unity.
Issues with GNOME 2 will be relegated to the 'we fixed that in Unity'
launchpad bug status.

So babble on Shaun & let us know if you run across any of these 1056
Unity bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/
BTW: the first bug was filed 2010-07-24