Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' LTS

[VinDSL]

Unity is alive... long live Unity!

Ubuntu 12.04 dev release- Radiamentary 0.66 - ACYL 0.9.4 - Adwaita GTK+

 

[bob3450]

how did you change your icons, and is that conky you are using as a system monitor?

 

[zokudu]

I might consider swapping to this when it goes stable. I'm on Debian 6.0 right now and am pretty happy but its always cool to try new things. Probably after this semester all my school works on my debian laptop right now.

 

[Crusty]

I might consider swapping to this when it goes stable. I'm on Debian 6.0 right now and am pretty happy but its always cool to try new things. Probably after this semester all my school works on my debian laptop right now.

Reason #12345 to have a separate /home partition.

 

[zokudu]

Reason #12345 to have a separate /home partition.

Very true. Though running a backup and restoring all my files isn't too hard it's just not something I want to do mid semester. I guess I could try it in a VM as well.

 

[ktehmok]

Yay, maybe my two toughbooks will work now. They have had borked boot ups since kernel 3.0.0.15

 

[Phillip Atkins]

I hate unity and that wierd sidebar, I installed Ubuntu 11 and used it for a few days and hated it so I went back to 10.04

 

[VinDSL]

how did you change your icons, and is that conky you are using as a system monitor?

I made those icons with ACYL 0.9.4 (Any Color You Like). It's quite easy!

And, yes, I'm using Conky-all 1.8.1-5 for monitoring.

Here's a HOWTO, if you're interested: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1771033

 

[VinDSL]

I hate unity and that wierd sidebar [...]

You can do Oldskool, if you don't like the Launcher, Dash, & HUD...

 

[icinose911]

can u give me your conky script ?
if u can sent to icinose@gmail.com

 

[VinDSL]

can u give me your conky script ?
if u can sent to icinose@gmail.com

The link to my Conky data dump is in Post #8 (above)...

 

[M0RPH]

I wanna try Linux again. Couple questions:

1- when will this Ubuntu 12 be available?
2- any other distros worth checking out besides Ubuntu?

 

[lxskllr]

I wanna try Linux again. Couple questions:

1- when will this Ubuntu 12 be available?
2- any other distros worth checking out besides Ubuntu?

1 End of April

2 there's tons. I'm personally fond of Debian, and it's derivatives, of which Ubuntu is one. I'd try Ubuntu, and install some different desktops. There's also mint which started as a mostly pointless ubuntu clone imo, but has been defining it's own niche over the last couple releases. For some different distros, fedora suse, bodhi, and mageia are worth a look.

 

[themillak]

12.04 is officially released sometime in the second half of april. if their past versions are anything to go by, its close enough that you can start using it now and it should be fine.

as far as other distros, there's a large list at distrowatch.com or you could also try other window managers with the same distro.

 

[theevilsharpie]

1- when will this Ubuntu 12 be available?

Late April.

2- any other distros worth checking out besides Ubuntu?

If you're just looking to get your feet wet with desktop Linux, Ubuntu and its derivatives are your best bet, since it has the largest community. Linux Mint also seems to be gaining in popularity.

However, aside from branding and software package management, most general-purpose Linux distros will be very similar from a usage perspective.