[ILUG] Ping (should be: 9.10 netbooks)

[Gerard Cunningham]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 12:23 +0000, keith wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:53:02 +0000
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> >> From: Gerard Cunningham<lists at faduda.net>
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> > Subject: Re: [ILUG] Ping
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> > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:42 +0000, Conor Wynne wrote:
> >    
> >> Paulo Jacob wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Everybody is busy checking out Ubuntu 9.10! :)
> >>> I'm not ignoring your message because I never saw it. LOL
> >>>
> >>> Paulo
> >>>
> >>> On 11/03/2009 09:39 PM, Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>> Just a test since I haven't received any mail from the list in almost a
> >>>> week, wondering if I've been unsubscribed somehow. If you see this then
> >>>> ignore.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>>        
> >> I saw it was available as an upgrade option on my daughters eeepc, but I
> >> decided to just install the patches for 8 instead.
> >> Since it is working flawlessly in every single way, I'm loath to try
> >> something new and potentially bork it.
> >>
> >>      
> > It doesn't like Vodafone dongles, so if you use those to connect, it may
> > be best avoided. I haven't has any other issues so far, though there are
> > scare stories going round (Telegraph and Sky News among other sites).
> > Whether it's FUD or real I can't say. Mostly what I've seen are
> > complaints about sound cards being defaulted to mute, and Americans
> > complaining about problems with wireless modems. The problems seem to be
> > more common with upgrades. Clean installs seem to go much smoother.
> >
> >
> >
> >    
> >> Any good?
> >>
> >>      
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> fairly seamless upgrade on the aspire one, (512MB. 8GB SSD) via wifi, 
> going from 9.01 UNR to 9.10 UNR

I did a clean install on the netbook (also an aspire one 8Gb SSD) went
very nicely, an as of an hour ago, it likes my dongle too, so I'm
connected on the move.

Now to get rid of the dark brown/almost black theme and replace it with
something bright and chirpy...

> Some modded tmpfs mounts in fstab failed on first reboot but after 
> commenting out and boot cycling it works fine.  exit/logout/lock/suspend 
> button missing off the gnome panel, but easily added.
> 
> polished and slick, it "feels" more responsive.  certainly very pretty.  
> mozilla browser ( swiftfox ) still causing machine to pause, 
> occasionally for up to 20 seconds, as it writes to the disk.

I was talking to someone at the weekend about that, they mentioned
tweaking so Firefox writes to RAM instead of disk. Can't for the life of
me remember the details offhand, but I'm sure the google knows.