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post #1 of 83
3/2/07 at 9:17pm
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Hey guys,

Running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 5 right now. So far, everything has been stable, except VLC media player. Codecs are much easier to get becuase ubuntu now guides you how to get them. In the system menu, desktop effects is listed for an easier setup on beryl.

So far so good, I highly reccommend this distro out when the final version is out if gnome is their thing. Otherwise for KDE, i would stick with PClinuxos (kubuntu feisty fawn didnt work for me).

The only thing i didn't like was the new wallpaper... a little different from edgy's but the curves aren't as visible, just a minor problem tho
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post #2 of 83
3/20/07 at 3:46am
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Originally Posted by BIGEE1212
Running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 5 right now. So far, everything has been stable, except VLC media player. Codecs are much easier to get becuase ubuntu now guides you how to get them. In the system menu, desktop effects is listed for an easier setup on beryl.

So far so good, I highly reccommend this distro out when the final version is out if gnome is their thing. Otherwise for KDE, i would stick with PClinuxos (kubuntu feisty fawn didnt work for me).

Yes - i just tried KUbuntu Herd 5 and, although the live cd booted fine, the system would not boot after install. it would just hang on startup.

Living dangerously, I just burned a CD of a daily build ;-)
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post #3 of 83
3/20/07 at 3:34pm
Well the daily build for Kubuntu installed like a charm, recognised my video card right away, so now I'm happily running the development branch of Kubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.4 which is due for release on 19 April
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post #4 of 83
3/20/07 at 6:47pm
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sweet! well i took feisty off becuase of a few minor annoyances that are scheduled to be fixed. i will definately upgrade from edgy to feisty once the final version is out. good luck keeping that thing stable
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post #5 of 83
3/20/07 at 6:53pm
I have to upgrade my laptop today. I had very few problems with feisty on my desktop so I was going to give that a shot. I'm still running (what started out as) the dapper beta on my laptop so I figured Feisty may work out just as well.

BIGEE, what issues are you having? I think I just might hold off on the eye candy till after the final release.
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post #6 of 83
3/21/07 at 9:50am
Why upgrade to Fiesty when Edgy with Berryl is great! Im so in love with this setup that I hardly ever use Windows. I still have to use it to talk to the wife with web cam (I am in Atlanta and shes in Austin still) and to use my USB GPS receiver with the software.
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post #7 of 83
3/21/07 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by martinje
Why upgrade to Fiesty when Edgy with Berryl is great! Im so in love with this setup that I hardly ever use Windows. I still have to use it to talk to the wife with web cam (I am in Atlanta and shes in Austin still) and to use my USB GPS receiver with the software.

Because I want to have the latest SVG editing apps (especially Karbon14, Kivo) for when I am talking to the developers. Conversations go badly if they start "well of course you are using an old version".

Actually I want KDE4 as well asap. Tried a snapshot, but it broke my Edgy (Konqueror would no longer start). Need to evaluate KSVG2.
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post #8 of 83
3/27/07 at 8:25pm
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Originally Posted by bigtrouble77
I have to upgrade my laptop today. I had very few problems with feisty on my desktop so I was going to give that a shot. I'm still running (what started out as) the dapper beta on my laptop so I figured Feisty may work out just as well.

BIGEE, what issues are you having? I think I just might hold off on the eye candy till after the final release.

Well, I was having enough problems to move back to edgy.

But, the beta version just released (after herd 5), and from what ive read its pretty stable.
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post #9 of 83
3/27/07 at 11:40pm
I've been using Feisty for a week now and I have to say it's been phenominal. I can't believe how much Beryl has matured since the last time I used it. It's been perfectly stable so far. Actually, the whole system has been perfectly stable. I've had several huge updates and nothing has broken yet.

Compared to Dapper this is a HUGE improvement. I don;t know how, but all the codecs are working in 64bit Totem. I had stability issues with totem in dapper, but everything is fine in Feisty.

I had to do a little work to get vmware working. Opera has a small issue with displaying downloads, but it appears to be an opera bug (I'll have to snag the beta). Other than that, no issues.

My next fun thing to tackle is going to be the kernel level virtualization and maybe getting one of the low latency kernels working for ardour.

Best distro release I've used so far.
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post #10 of 83
3/29/07 at 9:06am
I agree i have been using Edgy on two laptops and almost every day as just a live CD on my work computer. Feisty is pretty awesome, i really like the improvements in the wireless networking, and overall ease of use. But i have had quite a few problems with it, including getting the damn thing to install in the first place....

the first time i installed it, it needed the cd to start...wtf! lol but i got it ironed out.
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post #11 of 83
3/29/07 at 12:14pm
hmmm... I've got some problems with the Feisty Beta so far. network-manager is giving me grief. My home wireless connection is WEP encrypted, and it doesn't want to let me connect to it. It detects fine, my router sees "wireless PC connected", but it doesn't ever send the encryption key so I can't get an IP address assigned and can't do anything online or get updates or packages from synaptic, etc. Also, I can't seem to enable the 3D graphic drivers for my video card. I click on "enable" in the restricted module area, the warning comes up "Ubuntu may run best with software we don't support", etc., click "enable anyway" or whatever the "yes" button is, the pop-up window goes away, and... absolutely nothing happens. I tried it a few times, and it's really annoying! I've got good and bad regarding the touchpad driver- it's much easier to move and click compared to Dapper, but the scroll function seems to be disabled. I'm hoping they can fix these issues before the final release is out.
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post #12 of 83
3/29/07 at 12:47pm
i must say ubuntu 7.04 is one thing I WONT be trying out. Quite frankly, although I think ubuntu is a great project, its not a distro for me. It is much slower than many other distros...and i am just not in the mood to wait 10 seconds for firefox to open. In other words...i'll be sticking to PCLOS2007 till i get bored....then we'll see.
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post #13 of 83
3/29/07 at 1:07pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe
hAlso, I can't seem to enable the 3D graphic drivers for my video card. I click on "enable" in the restricted module area, the warning comes up "Ubuntu may run best with software we don't support", etc., click "enable anyway" or whatever the "yes" button is, the pop-up window goes away, and... absolutely nothing happens.
NVIDIA or ATI? Enabling the restricted modules, by itself, does nothing. You also need to install one of them and then, for NVIDIA at least, there are commands to type to enable the driver:
Code:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto also, you might look at Envy http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
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post #14 of 83
3/29/07 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by abf
i must say ubuntu 7.04 is one thing I WONT be trying out. Quite frankly, although I think ubuntu is a great project, its not a distro for me. It is much slower than many other distros...and i am just not in the mood to wait 10 seconds for firefox to open. In other words...i'll be sticking to PCLOS2007 till i get bored....then we'll see.

Any thoughts on what makes it slow? Or what makes PCLOS2007 faster?
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post #15 of 83
3/29/07 at 1:17pm


sorry that was just too funny
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post #16 of 83
3/29/07 at 2:43pm
build and optimizations as far as i can tell.... i386 vs i586.... some other stuff that texstar does to his packages to make things smoother flowing and faster. also pclos seems to be just better put together...everything is integrated very closely and the default artwork is very good too to create that feeling of unity. all i can say is that while ubuntu takes 50 seconds to boot up, pclos does it in 27sec.
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post #17 of 83
3/29/07 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jars of Clay
Rescue me from hanging on this line
I won't give up on giving you the chance to blow my mind
But the eleventh hour quickly passed me by
I'll find you when I think I'm out of time

Heh interesting, didn't realise there was another Jarhead hanging around here, good to know

Nothing useful to add.

Seablade
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post #18 of 83
3/29/07 at 5:07pm
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Originally Posted by ChrisLilley
Any thoughts on what makes it slow? Or what makes PCLOS2007 faster?

I somewhat agree with abf, while I am a ubuntu user, it is much slower compared to pclinuxos or some other distros for that matter. The kernel has improved in ubuntu, automatically uses SMP kernel when i install edgy instead of me having to search synaptic for the right linux-image.
I think ubuntu is slow becuase its built to work on i386 architecture. However, pclinuxos is built upon i586 architecture.

Ubuntu still has some work to do, but ill still use it

Edit: just realized abf pointed out the i386 vs i586...
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post #19 of 83
3/29/07 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by BIGEE1212
I think ubuntu is slow becuase its built to work on i386 architecture. However, pclinuxos is built upon i586 architecture.

Ubuntu still has some work to do, but ill still use it

Edit: just realized abf pointed out the i386 vs i586...

In edgy, I had the option of -i386 and -generic kernels. I understood -generic to be different to 386, therefore. I also see that 'generic' replaced a bunch of other kernels, like amd ones and i686 ones.

Does the code in the kernels, plus the state of gcc, mean that there is significant benefit from recompiling (say, for a Core 2)?
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post #20 of 83
3/29/07 at 9:45pm
I'm using the amd64 kernel and my machine screams. Honestly, the only ubuntu distros I had performance problems with were Hoary and Breezy. Dapper, Edgy and Feisty have all been really impressive. I also don't think boot time is a good indicator of performance. It appears that Ubuntu tries to load tons of modules that fail (I get a ton of boot errors) so that may have something to do with it. So the longer boot time may be at the cost of hardware compatibility.

I've made a few tweaks on my Feisty machine so that booting takes about 30 seconds. I have many services loading like apache, mysql, postfix, etc.
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