http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/with my 2ghz laptop, windows xp takes 50 secs
with Presto linux, it's 13 seconds
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Ready to give it a shot. Hope it's better than the last iteration.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/bonqueesha = right]]>Apr 23rd 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 24th 2009 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
Still doesn't load as fast as Win Vista coming out of hibernation mode though. :P]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
Out of the box Ubuntu 8.10 does a lot more than XP. Out of the box, compare it to vista, functionality wise so speed wise too.

Netbook flavour is much lighter.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/You're absolutely right. Just look at the visual effects available for free in Ubuntu. They blow away anything Vista or even OSX can throw at it. And it's standard on the FREE OS.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
I guess finding your wifeless drivers is quite hard, since they must be going out a lot. Useful feature of Ubuntu, if you ask me.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
Ubuntu is slower on my laptop than Windows 7. Any programs I later install don't affect the startup speed and responsiveness unless you have them run at startup.

None of those fancy effects are of any use (except maybe the expose clone), in fact they got annoying after a few days (jelly windows...?).]]>Apr 23rd 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
Certainly possible. Take, for example, the Genie effect from OS X when minimising a window. It's definitely a visual effect that "sucks" the window down but it improves productivity by providing a visual indication of where the window has gone to (i.e. you shouldn't need to search for it later). The effect is certainly old and, I'm sure, has been surpassed but it's a good example of visual effects that communicate something useful. It's certainly possible to introduce visual effects that serve no useful purpose and I'm definitely against them but it is not correct to say that visual effects are all useless. One of the reasons why I'm not much of a fan of Compiz Fusion is simply that it is rare to see it used for anything useful.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/I installed.
I waited while it downloaded 100s of MBs of updates.
I played with jelly windows.
I formatted.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
If yes, then my friend you could install it runs faster than XP on my Comp.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/indeed, I gave new life to my old pentium III Toshiba portege laptop by booting it with Ubuntu. XP was killing it, despite all my attempts to reduce visual effects and such. I basically use like I would a netbook, and it works beautifully.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
'wifeless'

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Yes, because the Wubi install is a file on the windows filesytem (kinda like vmware) things that require disk access will be slower.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 24th 2009 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
I've seen far too many non-commercial Linux builds fall flat before version 1.0, that anything that gets above about version 3.0 makes me happy in ways I cannot describe.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
I wasn't actually using the Ubuntu versions as an example. I MEANT that it's good to see a linux distro get above a pema-beta stage.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/
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Just wish I had a crap laptop around to install it on.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Why not dual-boot?]]>Apr 23rd 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 23rd 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 24th 2009 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 24th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/Apr 24th 2009 11:19PM