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LeeNukes · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3

Anyone tried this? Essentially the reason I ask is that due to some strange issues, its getting likely I will need to reinstall a friends copy of Ubuntu on his machine, now I'd rather install 10.04 if its stable enough and allow the updates to just move him up to the latest stable release.

Anyone noticed any oddities?
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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/alpha3#Known%20issues says there are a couple, however I have not personally used it yet.

Can't it wait until 29th April?
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towy71 · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:17 pm Post subject:

One of my colleagues just posted this on twitter

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LeeNukes · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:05 pm Post subject:

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My experience with Intrepid (and Jaunty and Karmic are even easier to get wicd) and wireless was that once I installed WiCD and got rid of nm I got my wireless to work with WPK2 (?)- you know, the encryption stuff, whatever... Could you try first to get WiCD and then see if tat solves it (Although I heard nm got better lately- in my case, on Intrepid, the real problem was nm was using some flaky libs- once got those upgraded, it started working too)

LeeNukes · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

You completely removed NetworkManager and replaced it with WiCD?
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Oyster · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:20 am Post subject: Lucid Alpha3 in dev

I've been using Lucid for a week or so now.

Today a patch broke the machine so that a liveCD was required to rectify.

I wouldn't be installing an anyone else's machine just yet. We're still under development.

There are a few other issues I have noticed e.g. not being able to use a particular online banking site with Firefox, but I have reported the bug and expect they will be rectified before the release date.

m0dcm · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:50 am Post subject:

Hi,
I've only been running Linux for just over 6 weeks now, and I opted for Ubuntu 9.10. My machine is the Acer Aspire One ZA3 aka AO751h.
I know I had problems with the Intel GMA500 (Still can't play full screen video) and the sound, but I fixed this after scouring the Ubuntu Wiki. My question is, have they added support for the Intel GMA500 in 10.04?

One thing is for sure, I will not be going back to Microsoft!!

Dave

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shinso · Joined: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:47 pm Posts: 13 Location: UK

I tried upgrading my Ubuntu 9.10 VM at work. Funnily enough the filter caught it upgrading "libsexy" (and a few others with similarly dubious names) and blocked it! Thank God for snapshots Wink

m0dcm · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:23 pm Post subject:

m0dcm · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:59 pm Post subject:

Hey Guys,
Well, I know I've posted a couple of times now about the Intel GMA500, but I've just come across this bit of news about the graphics accelerator that was posted March 9th - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA1Mw

All I can say is, at least we'll have some sort of support!!

Dave

nelz · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject:

That page doesn't mention the GMA500. It's about the xf86-video-intel driver, which is for the GMA[89]* chips. The GMA500 uses the pouslbo driver, which isn't part of XOrg.
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