Ubuntu progress
Posted By matt on April 21, 2008
As a follow-on to my previous post about operating systems, I should probably talk about Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron).
It is really good.
I've been running the beta pf the Xubuntu variant for about two weeks, which has now gone into Release Candidate status.
Various impressions:
- NetworkManager seems to have finally gotten into working reasonably well and not breaking all the time. Hell, it doesn't even seem to be breaking at all, so far.
- FireFox and Thunderbird are still memory hogs. Just looking at what is running right now, we see:
9294 matt 20 0 777m 294m 25m S 2 14.6 30:07.45 firefox 9286 matt 20 0 788m 225m 28m S 0 11.2 31:06.04 thunderbird-bin
It's kind of absurd.
- I'm using the x86-64 (aka AMD64) build, and I don't know what folks are complaining about – the various bits and bobs install into the browser just fine. Flash movies play, and everything seems to work well.
Anyway, I'm going to upgrade all my machines to it once I have a chance, and I will be staying with this release until the next LTS release. The intermediary ones have just gotten too flaky.
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