Comments on: Another Look at Ubuntu 9.04

By: econtrerasd

econtrerasd — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:57:31 +0000

On the removable media menu, I think it just needs a name change to “Storage Devices..” and voila!, no more confusion..
And I cheer for the slowdown and making speed improvements.. C’mon, even microsoft did that with Windows 7 and believe me I’ve tried it and its Sooo much better than vista..
Ok don’t flame me.. I’m an ubuntu fan, but I need to take a peek at the other side of the fence every now and then..

Keep the good work..

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:18:57 +0000

The consolidated removable media menu is in 8.10 as well. So it’s not new.

Just one observation about the new notifications. They look so out of place in Gnome. It’s very much a KDE-ish look and feel. Canonical are going to have to radically overhaul the basic default theme.

Slowing down is good. Canonical used to always say they do less but do it better. Or something to that effect.

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:27:28 +0000

BJ et al.: thanks for pointing out the missing JRE when starting OpenOffice. I hadn’t considered that as an explanation for its fast launch time, but it’s probably a factor.

Matt: unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to test Impress so I don’t know if the OpenGL transitions are included by default. But I believe this feature should be available in Ubuntu 8.10 if you install the openoffice.org-ogltrans package.

I also didn’t check for parental controls, but I haven’t seen them mentioned anywhere in release notes, so my sense is that you will still have to install them manually (there are instructions for installing some common tools at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=226298).

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:38:18 +0000

Will the OGL Transitions work on OpenOffice 3 impress? This means when I expose audiences to Ubuntu when I do a presentation they may have more reason to be interested in what I am running.

Will Jaunty include Parental controls out of the box?

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:29:31 +0000

Currently running Jaunty at the moment and its an improvement on Intrepid. One thing is the dynamic font resolution thats changed so its not stock standard at 96dpi … which helps with high-res displays.

By: BJ

BJ — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:35:45 +0000

Strange that nobody notices/complains about the perceived differences in startup time of OO.org 3.0.
The fast one complaines it can’t find a JRE while the slow one doesn’t, so the perceived speed increase is probably due to a missing JRE.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:39:30 +0000

Hi. Nice article. I have Ubuntu Jaunty already installed on my desktop and enjoying ext4 filesystem speed ups. Also, NetworkManager is now working properly when I connect to work using openvpn. In 8.10, I had to manually set the default routing to access office hosts.

I just want to point out that OpenOffice faster speed may be attributed to java runtime not being found on your usb live session.

Other than that, I highly recommend this release to readers.

By: Donal

Donal — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:02:09 +0000

I have a bunch of external HDDs connected in 8.10. ‘Places” is already organised like above in 8.10.

By: Socceroos

Socceroos — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:16:16 +0000

I’ve got to add my voice to the chorus about KDE4 – its come a long way. It still has a few issues that need to be sorted out. But I cannot see Gnome catching up any time soon.

@Endolith
You may find that the Places folder was changed with the ‘Removable Media’ subfolder because they’re trying to optimise for smaller screens. This has been a big focus from Gnome over the last few months.

Also, I’m glad to see Ubuntu’s new notifications system is getting the praise it deserves – a lot of effort has gone into that spec and the following implementation is really good considering the age of the whole idea.

I’m looking forward to having Jaunty as a solid incremental update to my systems. The increased performance will be a big thing for me.

By: Unlce Bully

Unlce Bully — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:57:21 +0000

I agree with the KDE4.* comments. I switched to Kubuntu recently and love it. KDE 4.2.1 is what i am running right now.
Not only is it a stable platform, that is just as good as Gnome, it also has a much more polished and professional feel to it.
Ubuntu with its default Gnome human theme (brown), just looks extremely outdated and ugly as hell.