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Ubuntu and proud of myself

alextop30

alextop30

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Since this is the general forum about computers I thought I feel proud of myself for a little here and let you guys that I have finally managed to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (beta 2) and configure it the way I have always wanted.

The two persisting problems which I had for the past 2 months with 11.10 were.

Grub 2 was not behaving properly with my 3 disk set up - I have been wanting to leave MBR intact and install Ubuntu on a totally different drive - the previous solution which I have had to deal with was manually generating a grub file so that it can pickup the windows installation and wiping MBR while it was at it. Now I point my computer to proper drive to boot from to boot into ubuntu using grub while the default method uses windows MBR to boot straight to windows!!! Awesome.

Problem number 2 involved my dual monitors and my Ge Force FX 460 GTX video card and my dual monitor setup. The Ubuntu X server was being a pain and would not accept the new Nvidia Driver which I was trying to push to it. Once I would do that the entire gnome interface would stop working. Now I just updated driver and modified the X server using the Nvidia utility and Ubuntu starts with my dual screens on.


Well I feel proud of myself :-)
 
It is yet to be released stable . :D .LTS-5 years is very tempting . April 26th is the big day . There is going to be a release party around my place ,lol ...
 
I used to try the beta versions but often had trouble upgrading. 11.10 was a nightmare.

So what's new in 12.04
 
12.04 LTS is in the final beta and the release is as stable as you want, of course it is not recommend that you put it on a commercial computer because of that little net a thing at the end. 12.04 is much faster than 11.10 and some of the services have been speed up segnificantly for example the software sources now opens in the single digit seconds instead of waiting a minute to open.

I really like it, stable and works.
 
alextop30 said:
12.04 LTS is in the final beta and the release is as stable as you want, of course it is not recommend that you put it on a commercial computer because of that little net a thing at the end. 12.04 is much faster than 11.10 and some of the services have been speed up segnificantly for example the software sources now opens in the single digit seconds instead of waiting a minute to open.

I really like it, stable and works.
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Good to hear this :D
Which is the default interface of Ubuntu 12.04, is it Unity? If so, some chance to use the Gnome desktop instead? :cool: Thanks.
 
I was going to start a Ubuntu Countdown thread for Ubuntu geeks ...... I guess this is it :p :D .Even though I am a hardcore Mint user ... (Ubu derivative )
We have every reason to get excited about Ubuntu 12.04 :D :D
 
Well if I can count correctly there are 17 days left to the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Just thought we should continue the countdown here.
 
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I think it is unity, the screenshot looked like that was the case. Also, I can't believe they are going with Pangolin instead of Penguin.... but a pangolin is pretty cool too.
 
one great thing Ive already noticed (which fixes what really pissed me off before) is that you have to almost force the launcher to pop out. Before if I had Firefox full screen and wanted to hit back Id inadvertently get the launcher popping up. That appears to be fixed now.
 
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