Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is ready for Upgrade.

[WoodPeckr]

Just got notification that Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is available.
Didin't realize it was that close.
Anyone taking the plunge?

www.ubuntu.com

 

[sleazure]

Hardy gave me a lot of grief. I think I'll wait for the review to come out, and for the first few emergency patchsets.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I jumped right in on the last 2 upgrades straightaway and had little problems. Ubuntu was very speedy with the few patches needed and runs fine....

 

[girorok66]

May be I should stay put on 11.10?

 

[WoodPeckr]

What version you running girorok66?
Because Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is the newest version just released.

After checking the Ubuntu Forums I'm going to wait a bit more more the dust to settle before moving to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).

Natty, version 11.04 is running just fine now with no issues....

 

[jwmorrice]

I've stuck with 10.10. I hate the Fisher Price tiles.

jwm

 

[WoodPeckr]

Overall I liked Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) best and customized it the most.
IMHO, still think Gnome was better than Unity.

 

[girorok66]

What version you running girorok66?
Because Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is the newest version just released.

After checking the Ubuntu Forums I'm going to wait a bit more more the dust to settle before moving to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).

Natty, version 11.04 is running just fine now with no issues....

I have a laptop and a netbook running 9.* and I'm looking forward to upgrade them...

May be I can give it a try on a virtual machine on my i5-2500K rig.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Well I downloaded both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Then burned and created a couple Live-CDs. Gave them a test drive on the Dell i7 and both ran OK for the short time playing with them. This is the recommended SOP to see how a distro runs on your PC before doing an installation.

11.10 Oneiric Ocelot , OO, is a bit different from 11.04 Natty Narwhal, NN, but easy enough to figure out if you are familiar with Natty Narwhal, which was a radical departure from earlier Ubuntu versions. IMHO some of the Oneiric Ocelot changes are nice. Not sure when I will do a full install of OO.

BTW Natty Narwhal runs fine and am very pleased with its performance.

 

[zorlack]

I've stuck with 10.10. I hate the Fisher Price tiles.
jwm

hiya jwm, no shit! they dumbed it down...trying to make it like a fkn microwave defrost button, popcorn button, etc...vertical bar menus only make sense on mobile & netbooks, fkn dumb to force it on desktops.

I do not like Ubuntu...likewise do not care for Gnome & KDE changes...so custom Arch Linux, or Linux Mint XFCE is built on Debian insteada Ubuntu.

 

[classicalAurelie]

Argh don't bother! Been using a 11.10 beta for a couple of weeks... Decided to wait for release and give it a decent chance, and was just as terrible.
I hate that you no long have the option for "gnome classic" - only Unity or Unity 2D.
In my option, Unity is a failure. I am not particularly scared of big changes in new desktops, but Unity does not feel intuitive, and the window manager "feels" buggy and cluttered. Will try whole new distros this week (hopefully Mint, JoliOS, and Fedora), but if I were to stick with any of the heavier distros I know so far, I'd stick with 11.04 + Gnome 2. My work computer has been on a deeply customized Arch Linux, and it's the best THING EVER lol

 

[WoodPeckr]

I have 'adjusted' to Unity and it's OK. They made some nice modifications to Unity in Oneiric Ocelot. That said I still think Gnome 2 was more efficient and intuitive. You have to stay with older versions if you want to remain with Gnome 2, because Gnome 3 pretty much changed to way older Gnome versions run.

 

[Cobster]

May be I should stay put on 11.10?

Stay with 11.04, installed 11.10 and it felt a bit sluggish.
Thankfully installation is insanely fast and a breeze and I'm back with 11.04 on my laptop (dual boot).
I'm not a fan of fisher price tiles either (lmao JWMorrie)

 

[WoodPeckr]

Here's the Ubuntu release/support timeline

Looks like 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) will be the next LTS version:

 

[zorlack]

Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3822

funny, comments as well

later

 

[WoodPeckr]

Unity is a good idea, but none of them are me. The look is garish and ugly, and it takes twice as many clicks as it did before to get to an application

This is my biggest knock on Unity also. It introduces making extra clicks not needed before with Gnome.

I use terminal sort of regular now and use an easy keyboard shortcut to get a terminal with Natty.

Just hit: Ctrl, Alt and T, and a terminal pops right up.
This way you don't have to go through Launchpad.

 

[zorlack]

This is my biggest knock on Unity also. It introduces making extra clicks not needed before with Gnome.

I use terminal sort of regular now and use an easy keyboard shortcut to get a terminal with Natty.

Just hit: Ctrl, Alt and T, and a terminal pops right up.
This way you don't have to go through Launchpad.

hiya WoodPeckr, precisely...they fkn dumbed it down.

I use the shell often, SSH, shell scripts, or stuff like ps -auxe or whatever after firefox crash, and kill -9 PID# for it, or killall firefox or whatever.

l8r

 

[WoodPeckr]

I use the shell often, SSH, shell scripts, or stuff like ps -auxe or whatever after firefox crash, and kill -9 PID# for it, or killall firefox or whatever.

Natty eliminated the 'force quit' feature that used to come in handy every now and then when something would lock or freeze up. Use to always place the 'force quit' icon in the middle of the top panel with Gnome so it was always handy if needed. Was worried at first and thought I would miss it but FWIW Natty has been so stable to date there has very seldom been any need to use that 'force quit' feature....

Opera has been the only app to lock up once in a great while on a couple websites.

 

[girorok66]

I installed 10.04 Natty on a virtual machine. Everything was fine. Then, I upgraded to 10.11. Now, I can only log on to GNOME Classic and can not log on to native ubuntu environment (Failed to load session "ubuntu"). Must be some package dependence issue but WTF