I was all braced for a Herculean effort to get Ubuntu 9.04 working on my system, earlier this week, but as mentioned, I was disappointed: the upgrade worked almost flawlessly. But I did have one remaining problem with it (other than the encrypted home directory problem), and I was concerned by all the “cruft” that had accumulated from my various experiments in the last couple years, so I decided to do a full reinstall to clean it all out.
The gnucash package installed without a single problem this time. The system also starts up much faster now — the reinstall trimmed another (!) ten to fifteen seconds off of the boot time. The fresh install also gave me the new themes, which the upgrade didn’t, so it sports a new look now.
All in all, I’m even happier with this version than I was originally. 🙂
I saw an article on OSNews saying Ubuntu 9.04 was slicker than Windows 7 and OS X. I agree about Windows but no comment on the latter part. 😉
I haven’t seen Windows 7 yet, and have barely glimpsed OS X, but 9.04 is certainly slick. At the rate that Canonical is improving Ubuntu, Microsoft should definitely be worried about its fading OS monopoly.
Yeah, between Linux improvements, and OS X’s Snow Leopard, it looks like Windows is becoming more and more an inferior operating system. (Of course, it always was. 😉 )
I fresh-installed the netbook remix img onto my Dell mini 9… Not sure if I like the remix interface or no.
I haven’t seen it yet. The standard Ubuntu interface (for 8.04, haven’t tried later ones on that system yet) works fine on my Asus Eee, though I did modify it to only have one panel instead of two, and squashed everything onto that one.
It unsquashes things even further, the top panel in the netbook remix becomes part of the program windows. (It’s hard to explain, you’d have to see it for yourself.) It also has a spiffy program launcher.