New version of Ubuntu released

[Fox]

Version 9.10 of Ubuntu was released yesterday. I have been testing it since Alpha 4 and it's very good. Boot times have been improved from 9.04 and it seems speedier overall. The Netbook Remix version has been completely redesigned to be more efficient. I recommend that you give this version a try if you're interested in Linux.
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Mini 2: 2.26 ghz Core 2 duo, 8 gb RAM, 500 gb Seagate
Also a Cube, 13" MacBook Air, 20" 2.66 ghz iMac & 11.6" Acer 1810TZ running Ubuntu, Mint & openSuse

[Aquafire]

RE Ubuntu.

It does look good.

Let us know how it sits with your Mini.

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In the meantime, I am going to be road testing Chakra, which looks (on the surface at least) to be a very modern modular fork of Arch Linux.

http://chakra-project.org/



I have always liked Arch & this fork variation is an eclectic mix of new as well as older fashioned tools.

As well as this, being that its German made, means that its probably going to have superb attention to detail.

Aqua.

Hopefully I will be burning an ISO tomorrow.
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[Fox]

Ubuntu 9.10 works well with my mini. The only issue I've had, and it isn't mini-specific, is with audio when mp3's and mp4's are playing. In some cases, the audio slowed and the pitch deepened. This was, at times, specific to VirtualBox and at times it happened with VMware Fusion. I say "at times" because I tried so several pre-release versions on three different Macs and during that period, both Fusion and VB underwent upgrades. When I had the problem, I was able to solve it by removing pulseaudio and gstreamer-pulseaudio, but it appears that all is good without doing that in the release version of Ubuntu installed on the current versions of Fusion or VB.

Regarding Chakra, I saw the "Development Release" announcement a week ago, downloaded it then and installed it on two of my Macs in VB. It's fast and good-looking and so far, I've only run into minor problems with it. I actually signed up on their forums so I could find out what they meant by "Development Release". I interpreted the response as something between alpha and beta. Unfortunately, the final version isn't scheduled to be released until late 2010.

The one problem I have with "small" distros like Chakra is that the repo is limited in size unless the distro is based on a major like Debian or Ubuntu. I ran into this problem with VectorLinux, which I otherwise liked. There is a particular program I use as an indicator of this, a GUI front-end to a well known and well used statistics program. Neither Chakra nor Vector had it in their repos, which means building it from source. I was unable to do this in Vector and no one could guide me successfully, so I lost interest in it. I'll try this in Chakra at some point.
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Mini 1: 2.3 ghz Core i5; 8 gb RAM, Corsair 240gb SSD, 500 gb Seagate XT
Mini 2: 2.26 ghz Core 2 duo, 8 gb RAM, 500 gb Seagate
Also a Cube, 13" MacBook Air, 20" 2.66 ghz iMac & 11.6" Acer 1810TZ running Ubuntu, Mint & openSuse

[curt]

I didn't know about the new version. I've actually been thinking about giving Ubuntu a try on a cheap nettop (perhaps ION-based) with Hulu making their desktop application available for Linux. Maybe see what is going on with MythTV these days as well.
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EyeTV 250 Plus
My Setup

[Aquafire]

[dungeon92]

Did you do a clean install or upgrade, I di upgrade form 8.10 to 9.04 and had some issues, but never have when reinstalling.
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