Wow. Karmic is *fast*.
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| Author | Content |
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| Sander_Marechal Nov 01, 2009 7:09 PM EDT |
I just upgraded my EeePC 900 netbook from Jaunty to Karmic. The difference in speed is amazing. It's a lot faster than Jaunty. I suspect that the main reason is because of the new JavaScript engine in Firefox. I spend 95% of my time on the netbook browsing the web and I use the Vimperator plugin which uses JavaScript. It's not just that though. Scrolling (and video in general) is faster too. I must say, I'm a happy camper so far :-) Also because so far nothing broke. Usually Ubuntu upgrades break something but this one is going smoothly so far. |
| TxtEdMacs Nov 01, 2009 7:22 PM EDT |
[serious] Very informative, plus 4. I have a new (to me) laptop circa mid-2007 with a dual core chip, an upgraded 7,200 hard drive. Just waiting to see what unexpected blips show before wiping the various versions of Windows off this machine to upgrade, really fresh install using Ubuntu 10.10. Thus, I appreciate the reading of real user's experiences with this distribution.[/serious] YBT |
| steever Nov 01, 2009 7:59 PM EDT |
10.10 - that's some beta you're running! |
| TxtEdMacs Nov 02, 2009 9:12 AM EDT |
Always thinking ahead. When you dream cosmology terms, what's an Earth year when you scan billions? YBT P.S. Aptly corrected to 09.10. Once 10.04 hits I doubt I will have any further interest in 10.10. Odd it seemed so right when I was writing it ... |
| montezuma Nov 02, 2009 9:44 AM EDT |
There is talk of syncing the next Ubuntu to Debian testing rather than Sid because it is an LTS release aiming at stability. I'm not sure how this will work given that some packages might go backwards version wise. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 02, 2009 10:46 AM EDT |
I doubt that the versions will go backawards. The current version numbers in 9.04 are from sid ~6 months ago. Debian Testing is ~10 days behind Debian Sid unless the package contains RC bugs. Perhaps you were thinking of Debian Experimental instead? |
| caitlyn Nov 02, 2009 12:34 PM EDT |
@Sander: Does your EeePC have an Intel graphics chipset? I wonder how much of the improvement is because a lot of the problems with the Intel driver have been corrected and how much is other issues. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 02, 2009 5:46 PM EDT |
@Caitlyn: It does have an Intel chipset, but I don't use compositing. I expect some improvement came from fixing Intel but not too drastic. |
| montezuma Nov 02, 2009 7:23 PM EDT |
Sander, I checked distrowatch for today and there are one or two differences of note. For example libgnome is at 2.28 in sid and 2.26 in testing. 2.28 was released in September so that is lagging a bit. I crosschecked this issue with a Ubuntu developer and they assured me there would be no going backwards on versions from Karmic to Lucid so that is good. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 03, 2009 5:05 AM EDT |
montezuma: libgnome should not be a problem anyway. Ubuntu doesn't source Gnome from Debian but directly from Gnome upstream. But it's good that you checked :-) |
| montezuma Nov 03, 2009 8:42 AM EDT |
Sander, I wasn't aware of that. Still the point remains, some packages lag some months (not 10 days) in testing compared to sid. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 03, 2009 9:19 AM EDT |
montezuma: In that case, check the Debian bugtracker. There should be an RC bug there that prevents the package from moving to testing. The entire Sid->Testing move is automated. A new Sid package is automatically moved to Testing after 10 days unless there's an RC bug. |
| montezuma Nov 03, 2009 9:24 AM EDT |
Sander, Yeah I know. It will be up to the Ubuntu devs to sort this all out in a sane way I guess. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 03, 2009 11:11 AM EDT |
The best way would be solving RC bugs :-D |
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