Jaunty Alpha, what do you think?

[jmadero]

Hi All,

What do you guys think of the alpha release so far? I installed the 64 bit for the first time today...what I noticed:

1. Definitely still in alpha ... lol
a. Read speeds were slow, re-read also slow (using EXT 4, this should never be slow )
b. Media controls work for live but not once installed
c. No sound at all
d. After doing the 250+ updates, reboot, kernel panic, can't boot into it any more

2. Like some things
a. Incredible boot time, they weren't joking when they made this one of their main goals
b. The new look of some things is slick, little stuff like volume control display

That's about it actually, I didn't notice much else, unlike Intrepid where I saw a huge jump, especially with network stuff, I'm not seeing a lot of difference between 9.04 and 8.10

[techieMoe]

I just installed Alpha 5, and it could be my imagination but the installer seemed to go mighty quick. They have a new screen for choosing your time zone that I'm not sure I like. Boot is almost flicker-free (at least it doesn't flicker once the loading splash comes up) and time from boot to login is significantly faster. I like the new GDM login theme. I just with they'd change something about the actual desktop theme.

[jmadero]

yeah the installer was pretty fast for me as well. Did you do all the updates and have no problem? I'm thinking about running Alpha 5 in a virtualbox to see how it goes

[techieMoe]

yeah the installer was pretty fast for me as well. Did you do all the updates and have no problem? I'm thinking about running Alpha 5 in a virtualbox to see how it goes

It's all updated, yes. I had to change my repository because it couldn't authenticate some of the updates, but once I picked "Choose Best Server" and re-ran it all was well. It was about 300MB of updates.

The only real error I came across was the one they mention on the Jaunty Alpha page: the installer had to try twice before it could partition the drive. The second time through it had no trouble though. By the way, I tried it out on Virtualbox, so it should work fine for you.

[L4Linux]

Cutting fat in 6 months is not bad at all. MS tries to cut Vista fat for 3 years and Linux did it in 6 months!!
As for the desktop theme, why Willibex theme is not the default is beyond me. Some of my friends that do not use Linux yet, said about Ubuntu 8.10 with Willibex "this actually looks very nice".
In my opinion, it is much better than DarkRoom.

[techieMoe]

As for the desktop theme, why Willibex theme is not the default is beyond me. Some of my friends that do not use Linux yet, said about Ubuntu 8.10 with Willibex "this actually looks very nice".
In my opinion, it is much better than DarkRoom.

I have to agree, and I'd be quite happy to see a real-life implementation of the Willibex desktop.

[L4Linux]

I have to agree, and I'd be quite happy to see a real-life implementation of the Willibex desktop.

By real life you mean becoming default or you don't consider it complete yet?

[techieMoe]

By real life you mean becoming default or you don't consider it complete yet?

Well, the bare bones are there, but certain things (like that nifty transparent messaging framework Mark Shuttleworth showed off) aren't quite done.