ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope

I actually just downloaded the images yesterday. I want to upgrade my PC to SATA hard drives before I upgrade, because I usually do a full reinstall anyways. (My home directory is on a different partition, so I only have to reinstall software).

Is a full install better, or do you do that just to start a fresh?

Upgrades used to mess with my nVidia driver, and I frequently encounter other problems when upgrading. I do like the fresh start as well.

I have Ubuntu 8.x but I gave up trying to install my Broadcom wifi card.

Now I have a Linksys draft-n card, maybe the Jackalope will work better for me

problems with the nvidia drivers and dual monitors in 8.10. I'll hvae to get a live CD and see if they're fixed now...

What were the issues? I have been running dual screens since I started using Ubuntu (6.06). I use the nVidia config utility, and not the Ubuntu native one.

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a test box to see how some of the new advancements are working out. Turns out, it has support for my mobile phone (SGH-A707) out of the box now...w00t!!!1

Hello friends please don't mind but i don't know about Ubuntu and i want to know about it and here you all are experienced in all field so you know much about it so if possible please make me understood about Ubuntu what exactly is it?waiting for your reply.

A few things I've noticed so far:

• The new notifications system is really annoying. Instead of icons in the tray the actual dialog pops up in the background. And there's a little flash over the active window when it does that. Once it actually popped up in the foreground after I had been ignoring it for awhile. I thought the old system was fine, don't know why they changed it
• The new shutdown process is annoying because you have to confirm that you really want to shudown. How often do you shutdown by accident? For me not often I thought the old shutdown menu was fine (but they keep changing it)
• Whatever was wrong with my wireless applet seems to be fixed

Sorry, I was referring to the update notices not the notification system - that I kind of like.

I also totally hate the new version of Ararok which came with this release. I couldn't even figure out how to get it to play the way I want it to (after, like, 5 minutes of trying but still...)

I installed a fresh copy of 9.04, everything about it is great but I seem to have speed issues, even though 8.10 was fine and my computer isn't the problem, just seems choppy for me. Other then that it's great.

How much different do you think the PPC version is found on This Page are from the x86 versions? I am thinking about switching my powerbook to linux and am thinking about debian or ubuntu. I don't want to download a dvd image on our dsl or I would try YellowDog.

just seems choppy for me.

Xtron: ATi stopped supporting a bunch of graphics cards and there was a problem with Intel (fixed now I think, you should get a kernel update at some point). ATi have dumped support for graphics cards over two years old it seems, which sucks. So, if you have an ATi or Intel, the chances are your desktop is no longer hardware accelerated.

Try running glxinfo | grep 'render' from the command line, if it says 'direct rendering: no' and/or 'Mesa' in the OpenGL renderer string then chances are you've lost the graphics card accelerated desktop with Jaunty.

How much different do you think the PPC version is found on This Page are from the x86 versions?

Well most of the packages in the x86 repositories should also be in the PPC ones. Most noticeable omissions are Flash and Java. Frankly though, I've never tried it.