Canonical Releases First Ubuntu With Linux Kernel 3.0

[Guest]

Canonical has released the third alpha version of Ubuntu 11.10.

Canonical Releases First Ubuntu With Linux Kernel 3.0 : Read more

 

[memadmax]

huh? what? 3.0 versus 3.0.0? Am i missing something here?

 

[Stryter]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]huh? what? 3.0 versus 3.0.0? Am i missing something here?[/citation]

Yea you aren't the only one. If that's not a typo then I don't understand why it was necessary to make that remark in the article.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

What should I get exited about in Kernel 3.0 ?

 

[zoemayne]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]huh? what? 3.0 versus 3.0.0? Am i missing something here?[/citation]
if your involved in software or programming with versioning its common sense that 3.0 is not the same as 3.0.0

 

[Guest]

Well, aside from the other shenanigans in this article, I wouldn't consider alphas to be an actual release, either. They had the 3.0 release candidate kernels in alpha1 and alpha2, so if alpha Ubuntu counts as a release, then 3.0-rc kernels should count as 3.0...

Sensationalist journalism FTW.

 

[bv90andy]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]What should I get exited about in Kernel 3.0 ?[/citation]
not much, it's just an honorary version upgrade, coz of Linux being 20 years old now.

 

[zoemayne]

yea I wouldnt even consider beta a release

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]What should I get exited about in Kernel 3.0 ?[/citation]
Nothing more than would have excited you if it was 2.6.40, because in essence that's what it is.

I tried updating alpha 2 to alpha 3... it didn't work so well. Time to grab a fresh alpha 3!

 

[secretxax]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]What should I get exited about in Kernel 3.0 ?[/citation]

More Unity? LMAO...

 

[mayankleoboy1]

can i get the good old "ubuntu classic" on this version?
i am sick of unity and gnome3

 

[sairanjank]

new version of the news client Gwibber

Hey Gwibber is a social networking client.

 

[DSpider]

It's basically 2.6.40 (instead of 2.6.39).

Arch Linux doesn't have it in the core database, but it's in the "testing" repo (for now).


[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]can i get the good old "ubuntu classic" on this version?i am sick of unity and gnome3[/citation]
GNOME 3 is compatible with gtk2 themes, isn't it? So just get one from gnome-look.org.

 

[godmode]

i honestly don't like the unity DE ubuntu currently has, thats why i switched over to kubuntu. KDE's plasma desktop is surprisingly customizable, really; i feel i can make look like any thing, absolutely love it.

 

[Guest]

I don't understand all of the Unity hate, it's a very decent desktop experience once you get used to it.

Ubuntu 11.10 seems to be shaping up very nicely, Alpha 3 is already very stable, and they've done some nice tweaks to Unity, and made a 2d version of it that can run without working 3d acceleration. IMHO they have a winner on their hands.

 

[secretxax]

[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]can i get the good old "ubuntu classic" on this version?i am sick of unity and gnome3[/citation]

For Ubuntu 11.04, during login, select "classic login" at the bottom. This will make it always start with GNOME.

 

[Darkk]

I completely disagree. Stability is TERRIBLE so far. I've had alpha 3 installed 2 days so far and have already sent more crash reports to the ubuntu tracker than I have this year and last year combined. (90% revolve around Unity crashes).

In addition, running unity in either form is considerably slower than the Gnome Panel/2.0 Desktop environment.

Overall, the potential usability is awesome for Unity and the direction Canonical is heading. But the implementation absolutely blows so far.

It's just a terrible shame that Gnome Shell/3.0 is even worse.

Dude, it's still in Alpha state! Give it time and it will get better.

I do have to agree with most posters about Gnome 3.0 as I don't like it. KDE looks cleaner. For the record I was using Gnome 2.0+ version for a long time unti they started to push the 3.0 version. I know I still can use the old gnome but that too will eventually be phased out.

Darkk

 

[secretxax]

[citation][nom]Darkk[/nom]Dude, it's still in Alpha state! Give it time and it will get better.I do have to agree with most posters about Gnome 3.0 as I don't like it. KDE looks cleaner. For the record I was using Gnome 2.0+ version for a long time unti they started to push the 3.0 version. I know I still can use the old gnome but that too will eventually be phased out.Darkk[/citation]

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