[Blackpool] Ubuntu Installfest @ Oggcamp

Les lespounder at googlemail.com
Mon May 3 17:52:35 UTC 2010 

Hi everyone.

Shameless plug, but take a look at my blog and flickr photos.
http://lespounder.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/oggcamp-10-ubuntu-installfest/
See you Saturday.

Les

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> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:07:54 +0100
> From: Tony Hughes <tonyhughes1212 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] This weeks meeting 17th April 2010
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> Hi All I've just posted this to the Blog
> 
> I installed the RC onto my test bed laptop yesterday. The new install 
> procedure looks good, on first boot from the DC you get a choice to run 
> in live mode or go strait to install but its a nice new GUI from the get 
> go. Install options are the same as 9.10. Once you have chosen your 
> region, keyboard and decided on if you want to install on the whole disc 
> or not you get prompted to choose a user name and password and if you 
> want to boot to desktop without needing password or not. You also have 
> the choice to encrypt your home directory which is good if its a 
> portable PC. The actual install took about 25 minutes which wasn't to 
> bad. Given that this was the RC and had only been out a couple of days 
> there was a lot of updates to the software which took another 20-30 
> minutes to install once the base system was in place.
> 
> It seems slick and quite fast but not yet ready for work use as it will 
> not recognise my 3G dongle, this seems to be a known bug going back to 
> 9.10 which seems to have still not been resolved, not good for the new 
> LTS release and as it's not an issue in Mint 8 (based on 9.10) why is it 
> still an issue here? Boot time is acceptable for the hard ware and 
> everything else seems to work fine, all the PC hardware was recognised 
> out of the box, but as I put it on a Dell I1300, and considering all the 
> work Ubuntu and Dell have done together I would expect nothing else. It 
> also recognised my WiFi? dongle without any problems. It downloaded the 
> codecs for MP3, Flash and DVD as needed and all are working. It also 
> shuts down very quickly. One small thing is that the Max, min and close 
> buttons on windows are now on the upper left hand side (Mac like) it can 
> be a bit confusing at first and I think I would want to change this back 
> to what I'm used to.
> 
> If it was not for the 3G issue I would say it was ready for day to day 
> use on a second PC, but I wouldn't chance it as my day to day works PC 
> until I was sure there were no more bugs lurking in the background. It 
> will also be interesting to see how others fare on different hardware 
> and different peripherals. I think I will wait for Mint 9 to come out 
> and let them sort out the bugs before I install it to my working PC.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:54:27 +0100
> From: Tony Hughes <tonyhughes1212 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [Blackpool] Ubuntu 10.04
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <4BD57EF3.7010500 at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> 
> Hi All
> 
> I should have changed the subject to include Ubuntu 10.04
> 
> Sorry
> 
> Tony
> 
> Tony Hughes wrote:
> > Hi All I've just posted this to the Blog
> > 
> > I installed the RC onto my test bed laptop yesterday. The new install 
> > procedure looks good, on first boot from the DC you get a choice to run 
> > in live mode or go strait to install but its a nice new GUI from the get 
> > go. Install options are the same as 9.10. Once you have chosen your 
> > region, keyboard and decided on if you want to install on the whole disc 
> > or not you get prompted to choose a user name and password and if you 
> > want to boot to desktop without needing password or not. You also have 
> > the choice to encrypt your home directory which is good if its a 
> > portable PC. The actual install took about 25 minutes which wasn't to 
> > bad. Given that this was the RC and had only been out a couple of days 
> > there was a lot of updates to the software which took another 20-30 
> > minutes to install once the base system was in place.
> > 
> > It seems slick and quite fast but not yet ready for work use as it will 
> > not recognise my 3G dongle, this seems to be a known bug going back to 
> > 9.10 which seems to have still not been resolved, not good for the new 
> > LTS release and as it's not an issue in Mint 8 (based on 9.10) why is it 
> > still an issue here? Boot time is acceptable for the hard ware and 
> > everything else seems to work fine, all the PC hardware was recognised 
> > out of the box, but as I put it on a Dell I1300, and considering all the 
> > work Ubuntu and Dell have done together I would expect nothing else. It 
> > also recognised my WiFi? dongle without any problems. It downloaded the 
> > codecs for MP3, Flash and DVD as needed and all are working. It also 
> > shuts down very quickly. One small thing is that the Max, min and close 
> > buttons on windows are now on the upper left hand side (Mac like) it can 
> > be a bit confusing at first and I think I would want to change this back 
> > to what I'm used to.
> > 
> > If it was not for the 3G issue I would say it was ready for day to day 
> > use on a second PC, but I wouldn't chance it as my day to day works PC 
> > until I was sure there were no more bugs lurking in the background. It 
> > will also be interesting to see how others fare on different hardware 
> > and different peripherals. I think I will wait for Mint 9 to come out 
> > and let them sort out the bugs before I install it to my working PC.
> > 
> > Tony
> > 
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