Published: Thursday 29th October, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Ubuntu 9.10
Companies: Canonical (All Canonical content)
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email to a friendThe last few months have been interesting as far as high-profile operating systems are concerned. Apple kick started a wave of updates with the introduction of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard back on August 28th, and that was followed up a little over a week ago with an even bigger launch from Microsoft in the form of Windows 7 (check out our multi-part review here).
That's the vast majority of the market covered, but what about those hankering for something a little less costly? Linux tends to be the answer, and Canonical has today released version 9.10 of one of the most popular distributions; Ubuntu.
The new release, codenamed Karmic Koala and available to download free of charge at Ubuntu.com, promises "dozens of new features and improvements to take user experience to next level".
Among the list of improvements, users will find a redesigned login experience, faster boot times, a revamped audio framework, improved 3G broadband connectivity and the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser bundled as standard.
With the focus on improving the user experience, Canonical claims that "changes small and large" have helped to shape Ubuntu into "the most user-friendly operating system available".
Bold claims, but considering that it's completely free, can we really stand to argue? If you've been putting Ubuntu 9.10 through its paces, let us know how you're getting on in the HEXUS.community forums - is it living up to expectations, and can it find its place as your primary desktop OS?
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What are you talking about??:confused:
The 'Windows Rules' and 'Linux is rubbish' stuff. That is silly.Quote
I wish they would get a move on with releasing some proper ATI drivers myself!!
Who is "they" though?
There are basically two drivers - FGLRX which is a closed-source driver from ATI, and radeon, which is an Open-Source driver from assorted community developers.
FGLRX performance is pretty good these days (almost as good as NVIDIA), but has a few features missing (e.g. no Avivo HD), and more importantly, support for most cards was removed recently (i.e. FGLRX in Karmic only supports 2000-series or above)
radeon is very dependable and much more stable than FGLRX, but misses even more features (e.g. no hardware accelerated decoding of anything), and performance isn't great for 3D. radeon is the driver used for pre-2000-series cardsQuote
The 'Windows Rules' and 'Linux is rubbish' stuff. That is silly.
Might make more sense if you quote what you were responding to :)Quote
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