Will you be trying Ubuntu 10.04

[Pixel Pirate]

Im currently testing this out and it's pretty nice. It's the only version of ubuntu I could get photoshop "correctly" installed in wine.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Im currently testing this out and it's pretty nice. It's the only version of ubuntu I could get photoshop "correctly" installed in wine.

Which is thanks to wine not ubuntu :roll: .

 

[Pixel Pirate]

Well, ubuntu is mostly behind it as you have to configure ubuntu to work right with wine.

Im not a "fanboy" as you are accusing most to be ( just Saying that Before you say it ). Ive used almost every linux and they are all equally qualified as "good"

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Well, ubuntu is mostly behind it as you have to configure ubuntu to work right with wine.

Im not a "fanboy" as you are accusing most to be ( just Saying that Before you say it ). Ive used almost every linux and they are all equally qualified as "good"

I never called you a fanboy.

Ubuntu has nothing to do with if wine will work for you.

It is all wine. Sure you might need to install something from synaptic like the fonts,but that isn't thanks to ubuntu. It is thanks to that program's devs.

If you wanna thank someone for wine thank the wine devs.

 

[Pixel Pirate]

Either way its the only time I could get photoshop to work.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Either way its the only time I could get photoshop to work.

Which is great. I am glad you got a program you needed to work with wine . Sadly I still need crossover and cedega to get mine to work :/.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

I think it's funny sometimes, running Photoshop in Wine has some weird glitches sometimes. Whipping up Virtual Box or alternatives is always a must for me now.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

I think it's funny sometimes, running Photoshop in Wine has some weird glitches sometimes. Whipping up Virtual Box or alternatives is always a must for me now.

Agreed which is why I still will not use wine for any major program. Its to buggy ...

Oh and VMware > VirtualBox js 😛.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Wow I know I won't try this thing...

Why would the release it with such big bugs.

Performance regressions with ext4 under certain workloads

The default file system for installations of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is ext4, the latest version in the popular series of Linux extended file systems. ext4 includes a number of performance tuning changes relative to previous versions such as ext3, the file system used by default up to Ubuntu 9.04. These generally produce improvements, but some particular workloads are known to be significantly slower when using ext4 than when using ext3. If you have performance-sensitive applications, we recommend that you run benchmarks using multiple file systems in your environment and select the most appropriate.

In particular, the dpkg package manager is known to run significantly slower on ext4, causing installations using the server or alternate install CD to take on the order of twice as long as before. ext4 does not guarantee atomic renames of new files over existing files in the event of a power failure shortly after the rename, and so dpkg needs to force the contents of the new file out to disk before renaming it in order to avoid leaving corrupt zero-length files after power failures. This operation involves waiting for the disk significantly more than it strictly needs to, and so degrades performance. If fast package management operations are most important to you, then you should use ext3 instead. (570805)

The simplest way to select a different file system such as ext3 at installation time is to add the partman/default_filesystem=ext3 boot parameter when starting the installer. If you are deploying Ubuntu automatically using Kickstart or preseeding, then you can set a different file system in the partitioning recipe instead.

I/O error after CD is ejected at end of install

In some cases, ejecting the CD at the end of installation will leave errors on the screen such as:

end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 437628

these error messages indicate that the system is still trying to access some files on the CD, and are harmless except that they obscure the message asking the user to press Enter to reboot. You can safely remove the CD from the tray and press Enter at this point to reboot to your new Ubuntu system. (539027)

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Contents

1. System Requirements
2. Release notes for Ubuntu 10.04 for ARM
3. Installation
1. Performance regressions with ext4 under certain workloads
2. Recommended packages installed by default
3. Hibernation may be unavailable with automatic partitioning
4. I/O error after CD is ejected at end of install
5. Boot options hidden by default on Desktop and Netbook CDs
6. Installer crash with a separate /home partition
7. Dmraid active by default on Desktop CD
8. Partition alignment changes may break some systems
9. Desktop installer sometimes crashes on startup
4. Upgrading
1. GRUB menu.lst: install the maintainer's version vs. keep the local version
2. Setting wireless regulatory domain via module option no longer supported
3. Bonded network interfaces must use hotplug-style configuration
4. Kubuntu may keep unneeded guidance power package
5. Kubuntu's Akonadi may need restarting
6. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled by default in Xorg, configured via XKB
1. Enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace for Ubuntu
2. Enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace for Kubuntu
7. Change in notifications of available updates
8. MySQL upgrade
1. MySQL Cluster setup
9. /etc/event.d no longer used
10. Syslog upgrade
11. OpenOffice.org registry may be corrupted on upgrade from version 3.1.1-14
12. LPIA architecture discontinued
13. Dovecot cmusieve plugin renamed to sieve
5. Other known issues
1. Security Issue when upgrading from Lucid Alpha 2
2. Switching to ext4 requires manually updating grub
3. Upstart jobs cannot be run in a chroot
4. Use of degraded RAID 1 array may cause data loss in exceptional cases
5. Encrypted partitions must be listed in /etc/fstab
6. LVM filesystems should be listed in /etc/fstab by name
7. Boot failures with LVM on ia64, powerpc, sparc
8. Avahi will always start even if a .local domain is present
9. Working around bugs in the new kernel video architecture
10. Evince PDF viewer does not work for nonstandard home directories
11. No delay for boot menu with GRUB 2
12. Changes in boot-time output on Ubuntu Server
13. NSS resolution breaks with LDAP over SSL in Ubuntu Server
14. OpenLDAP may fail to start on upgrade
15. Sun Java moved to the Partner repository
16. Window corruption with older ATI graphics cards
17. Incompatibility with nVidia upstream driver installer
18. Intel 8xx X freezes/crashes
19. AbiWord freezes when accessing help documentation
20. Lightning extension not yet available for Thunderbird 3

These release notes document known issues with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and its variants.
System Requirements

The minimum memory requirement for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is 256 MB of memory. Note that some of your system's memory may be unavailable due to being used by the graphics card. If your computer has only the minimum amount of memory, the installation process will take longer than normal, but will complete successfully, and the system will perform adequately once installed.

Systems with less memory may be able to select "Install Ubuntu" from the boot menu to run just the installer, rather than the whole desktop, or may be able to use the alternate install CD.
Release notes for Ubuntu 10.04 for ARM

A separate page has been made available with release notes for the developer-oriented Ubuntu 10.04 armel port. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/LucidReleaseNotes for information about issues affecting installation on ARM.
Installation
Performance regressions with ext4 under certain workloads

The default file system for installations of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is ext4, the latest version in the popular series of Linux extended file systems. ext4 includes a number of performance tuning changes relative to previous versions such as ext3, the file system used by default up to Ubuntu 9.04. These generally produce improvements, but some particular workloads are known to be significantly slower when using ext4 than when using ext3. If you have performance-sensitive applications, we recommend that you run benchmarks using multiple file systems in your environment and select the most appropriate.

In particular, the dpkg package manager is known to run significantly slower on ext4, causing installations using the server or alternate install CD to take on the order of twice as long as before. ext4 does not guarantee atomic renames of new files over existing files in the event of a power failure shortly after the rename, and so dpkg needs to force the contents of the new file out to disk before renaming it in order to avoid leaving corrupt zero-length files after power failures. This operation involves waiting for the disk significantly more than it strictly needs to, and so degrades performance. If fast package management operations are most important to you, then you should use ext3 instead. (570805)

The simplest way to select a different file system such as ext3 at installation time is to add the partman/default_filesystem=ext3 boot parameter when starting the installer. If you are deploying Ubuntu automatically using Kickstart or preseeding, then you can set a different file system in the partitioning recipe instead.
Recommended packages installed by default

In accordance with the Debian Policy Manual (which says "The 'Recommends' field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations"), the package management system now installs packages listed in the Recommends: field of other installed packages as well as Depends: by default. If you want to avoid this for specific packages, use apt-get --no-install-recommends; if you want to make this permanent, set APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Be aware that this may result in missing features in some programs.

(This change was made in Ubuntu 8.10.)
Hibernation may be unavailable with automatic partitioning

The default partitioning recipe in the installer will in some cases allocate a swap partition that is smaller than the physical memory in the system. This will prevent the use of hibernation (suspend-to-disk) because the system image will not fit in the swap partition. If you intend to use hibernation with your system, you should ensure that the swap partition's size is at least as large as the system's physical RAM. (345126)
I/O error after CD is ejected at end of install

In some cases, ejecting the CD at the end of installation will leave errors on the screen such as:

end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 437628

these error messages indicate that the system is still trying to access some files on the CD, and are harmless except that they obscure the message asking the user to press Enter to reboot. You can safely remove the CD from the tray and press Enter at this point to reboot to your new Ubuntu system. (539027)
Boot options hidden by default on Desktop and Netbook CDs

The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop and Netbook CDs feature a new boot interface that is noninteractive by default. To configure advanced boot options, press any key at the first boot screen.
Installer crash with a separate /home partition

A bug in migration-assistant prevents some users with separate home partitions from completing the install successfully. Users who experience such a crash can disable migration-assistant by selecting "Try Ubuntu" at the first screen of the installer, then pressing Alt-F2 and typing ubiquity --no-migration-assistant at the prompt that appears. (536673)

Link - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004

Also look at this major bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/ bug/568779

maybe its just me,but isn't this the kind of bugs windows would get bashed on about?

Why can't they hold off the release until these bugs get fix,is it that hard?

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Agreed with the VMWare comment 😛

I don't know what is happening with Canonical, "we wont fix bugs, we will just include more in future releases". I must admit, 10.04 is working perfectly fine on my laptop in a live environment, but I am having serious issues on my desktop, which I don't have in 9.10.

I love it how they don't just think "We have got hundreds of bugs and hardware issues, let's just get them all sorted out before moving on with further enhancements and adding features".