Ubuntu 10.04

Have had ubuntu 10.04 on my main desktop for a few days now. I've got it on a vertex 30GB SSD and its insanely fast. Got a video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeCnZ6qaNKU

I loaded chrome with 55 tabs, open office and terminal on start up :D

You can see that up until around 12 seconds its all bios screens. The boot from CD/DVD screen annoys me because I have the CD/DVD drive disabled in the bios and its not on the boot list but it still shows that screen..

Then I have all these obscure errors displayed after that. Bit of googling reveals one is to do with certain displays and display drivers, and the other error is to do with fstab. Even though I get these messages it boots and runs fine; hasn't crashed once. Does anyone else get these?

Has anyone got any grub2 tips to decrease boot times?
 
I have it installed, my only problem is the fan control for ati (making my own software to ammend this) and the fact i have hybrid physx and I can't install both Nvidia and ATI drivers without mucking up my OS. oh and webcam issues :( but yep it is lightening fast.
 
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I have it installed, my only problem is the fan control for ati (making my own software to ammend this) and the fact i have hybrid physx and I can't install both Nvidia and ATI drivers without mucking up my OS. oh and webcam issues :( but yep it is lightening fast.
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Well you'd have an even harder time getting PhysX to run in Linux so i'd just keep the drivers for one, Linux games aren't nearly as resource intensive as Windows ones.

Don't forget to post that software on sourceforge! ;)
 
Using it on my Advent 4211 - brilliant, everything works great, wireless, webcam, all of it (had to install compiz to get visual effects) and it's fast and stable, and with Chrome it flies for internetz access too.

What I particularly like is, by more luck than judgment I'm dual-booting with Windows 7 - when you hibernate and restart you get the choice of OSes, so I can restart and boot into Windows 7 and it'll load up my hibernated Win7 session, it's great :)
 
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happened to plug in my iphone for charging last night and didnt realse you do more than browse the photos stored on it now, nice to have that. tho seems you need to have norty iphone to use it
 
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I decided to give Linux a go and decided it to be much easier to make it as a Virtual machine OS. Heres it is half way through.

Linux-VMBox.jpg


I have it 10Gb storage and 3gb Ram usage :)

++ Notice my History coursework at the bottom, such fun :p



EXTRA:

Here it is up and running. Doe's any one know how to make the screen resolution bigger?

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I'm sure they're installed as I installed most of the virtualbox stuff last night. I'll double check though :)
 
Really impressed with 10.04, used it on my netbook for a while and it's great, just drains my battery more quickly than Windows XP, so don't use it that often. Everything just works, and the interface is a big improvement since the last time I used it (hardy heron).

It makes a great alternative OS, but it's still too heavy for my netbook. I'd use it on a laptop if I had one, but the netbook suffers too much. I see Oxy has waxed lyrical about Arch, so I'm going to give that a shot this week.

Anyone who's never tried linux before, I recommend trying Ubuntu 10.04. it's probably the most polished release so far, and compatibility (in my experience) is great.
 
Installed this via WUBI to try out as i still play a lot of games that need windows.

Really impressed with 10.4, last Ubuntu i used was 8 and its so much better, using AWN for all my menus and stuff really good, if only i could play every game on it.

ATI drivers were easy enough to install but still need to update them to 10.5.

Will get a screenshot up of what my desktop looks like

EDIT :

 
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I tried Kubuntu 10.04 today after using Ubuntu all the time, and I have to say it is such a horrible distibution, it's such a mess. Ubuntu is soo much more clean, and straightforward, Gnome vs KDE, I have to say Gnome has and always will have it.

I am going to try Ubuntu Studio out soon, and see how that's made out to be.
 
i think you'll need a reasonable understanding of linux to attempt this.

i used collectd, hddtemp, nvclock and rrdtool.

my collectd.conf from /etc/collectd

if you have a nvidia card cp this to /etc/collectd and 'chmod a+rx it' for gpu temperatures.

and making the graphs via a cron with this script, you get daily, weekly, monthly and yearly pngs.

you need to adjust the scripts to suit your system, i wrote extra scripts to pull in line stats from my netgear DGND3300 router too but left those out (unless you have a compatible netgear router i can upload the extra bits)

my complete stats (long png sorry everyone)
Sakura%20stats_1277820617479.png
 
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