Comments on: A quick look at Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/ My hobby... Sun, 06 Oct 2013 19:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Alex https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-172 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:48:39 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-172 In reply to Alex.

Oh and erm… Z68 was released a fair while after the current kernel version by the way. So I can’t say I’m that surprised.

Would expect it to work with P67 but try 11.10 or a current dev kernel for Z68.

]]> By: Alex https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-171 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:45:15 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-171 In reply to Hamish.

No problems at all. I’m using it on my work PC which is a Core i3, auth’d against a Windows 2008 DC with Likewise and it’s been a dream.

Laptop has had a few stalls but nothing a quick restart of gdm couldn’t fix.

Both my laptop and work PC are much more common lower-end hardware than yours though.

]]> By: Hamish https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-152 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:53:37 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-152 In reply to Hamish.

Just rolled back. Same issue… Might be an incompatibility with the z68 chipset? Networking is just death. It struggles to pull 100kb/s from a LAN PC.

]]> By: Hamish https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-151 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:04:36 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-151 In reply to Hamish.

Oh yeah hardware is
GA-Z68-UD4-B3
i7 2600k
8gb ram
Intel 320 series 120gb SSD
MSI HD5870

Boots in about 15-20 seconds flat from on button to useable desktop. apps load instantly but anything to do with the network or large amounts of files and the thing is slooooow.

]]> By: Hamish https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-150 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:00:43 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-150 One months testing and I’m rolling back – bug fixes are too slow, any intense disk IO and nautilus just dies. Network speeds are an absolute dog compared to Windows 7, less stable and it kept dropping connections with all the devices on my network. Since all my files are on my file server – that’s a problem lol.
I’ll try again in 6 months lol. How’re you finding it?

]]> By: Alex https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-123 Thu, 05 May 2011 16:22:31 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-123 In reply to Hamish.

Cool :)

Bummer about vino-server and freenx but fortunately I don’t use either of those personally.

]]> By: Hamish https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-119 Wed, 04 May 2011 07:12:12 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-119 Fixed in the final release – you can now navigate diagonally :)

In other news, vino-server is broken, and freeNX doesn’t work with the unity environment.

]]> By: Alex https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-101 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:57:27 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-101 In reply to Hamish.

I noticed that, and figured it was because pressing them at the same time doesn’t work, hence why I noted ctrl + alt + right, down rather than ctrl + alt + right + down. But now that I think about it you might be right.

]]> By: Hamish https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/04/a-quick-look-at-unity-in-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-100 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:06:26 +0000 http://blog.al4.co.nz/?p=828#comment-100 Just having a play with it now… So far, I agree on the whole. Interestingly, if you’re in the bottom right hand desktop you can ctrl + alt + left + up to get back to the first desktop instantly, but to go back you must ctrl + alt +right, down – kinda inconsistent.

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