Ubuntu 11.04 is out!

[rasczak]

just loaded. I really like like the "new" gui feel. also like the fact that it installed bastille with no hitches.

 

[joetekubi]

I like the new gui, but I struggled most of the weekend trying to get it to install on a RAID1 mirrored drive setup. Sheesh - the trouble it gave me! I guess the devs are more focused on eye-candy, and figure that anyone with raid can figure it out for themselves. Even with the Alternate Install disk, I had to manually setup the raid partitions myself before launching the installer.

 

[Nothinman]

I like the new gui, but I struggled most of the weekend trying to get it to install on a RAID1 mirrored drive setup. Sheesh - the trouble it gave me! I guess the devs are more focused on eye-candy, and figure that anyone with raid can figure it out for themselves. Even with the Alternate Install disk, I had to manually setup the raid partitions myself before launching the installer.

Linux software RAID or BIOS assisted fakeRAID? If the former, then yes, that's not their target audience at all. The old, alternate installer could do software RAID, LVM, encryption, etc fairly painlessly because it's a port of the Debian installer but I haven't looked at the Ubuntu one in years.

 

[joetekubi]

Linux software RAID or BIOS assisted fakeRAID? If the former, then yes, that's not their target audience at all. The old, alternate installer could do software RAID, LVM, encryption, etc fairly painlessly because it's a port of the Debian installer but I haven't looked at the Ubuntu one in years.

Not sure if Linux supports FakeRaid yet - but I was using soft raid. I understand "target audience", but sheesh, I was using the alternate install disk, and even had to manually apt-get mdadm and go through chroot mounting before I got grub working. Way more trouble than it should have been. I thought most major distros had this working years ago.

 

[Nothinman]

Not sure if Linux supports FakeRaid yet - but I was using soft raid. I understand "target audience", but sheesh, I was using the alternate install disk, and even had to manually apt-get mdadm and go through chroot mounting before I got grub working. Way more trouble than it should have been. I thought most major distros had this working years ago.

There is a package called dmraid that supports many of the fakeRAID formats out there. And I know it worked in the past, but I guess they broke it recently.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I am finding that I like unity, only complaints would be I wish the application's toolbar was on the window rather than at the top of the desktop, wish I could launch a new instance of an open application from the Unity launcher rather than said toolbar, and some applications do not like the Unity launcher, like Netbeans, and refuse to launch from it.

 

[komatta]

Didn't like Unity. Switched to classic style. Don't know if I'll switch back.

Like the narwhal wallpaper.

 

[zeekr]

I tried it. Can't say I'm a fan of the new interface. Either Unity or Gnome. Tried a few other non-debian distros to see what's out there. I find the new KDE even worse than the new Gnome. For now reluctantly I have settled on XFCE based Xubuntu.

 

[zoiks]

When running compilations, the OS seems to hang. Got tired of it and went back to Meerkat.

 

[dawp]

I have this installed right now but I'm having trouble getting my wireless to work, a linksys wusb600n, and it appears that I'm not the only one. as far as the interface is concerned, I like opensuse better and may go back to that.

 

[joetekubi]

Really, really disliked the menu bar at the top of the screen for the current program, so I switched back to Ubuntu Classic interface. Much nicer for my needs (new system for my wife). Running it on a Gigabyte H67 mini-itx. The only stability problem I saw was with both gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver - they both locked up hard. Disabled them and everythings been good.

 

[MovingTarget]

When this came out, we were already in the process of deploying Ubuntu 10.10 in our lab. We're currently testing 11.04 and it does show promise. However, it isn't as polished as the previous Gnome UI. The application launcher/pane is the worst part. I think that we will just upgrade to 11.04 and use the classic interface as default for now until the next release, where it will hopefully be a bit more polished.