Comments on: Precise Quality, not just for Precise

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:36:54 +0000

Mark,

at first I want to thank you for bringing a free and easy to use operating system like Ubuntu to the masses. Ubuntu has great potencial but the main reason many people won’t use it, is all the unsupported hardware. Unfortunately, Dell is the only manufacturer I know of, trying to make their computers compatible with Linux. I think the next big thing after Unity should be to support as much of todays hardware as possible. This will be the key to really bring Ubuntu to a wider audience.

So you said your primary laptop runs very well with Precise, my question is: What is your primary laptop? A Dell?

All the best,
Christian

By: Testing Required: Unity PPA | jonobacon@home

Testing Required: Unity PPA | jonobacon@home — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:53:13 +0000

[...] from the ppa. Which means that YOU can help too! I’m bootstrapping this process with the French Musketeers to ensure everything is correct and ready for the next release. How to help there will be [...]

By: Stefano

Stefano — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:02:54 +0000

@ Marian Vasile: the bug you mention is solved already, look at the end of the launchpad page you linked..

By: Duncan Murray

Duncan Murray — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:48:30 +0000

Hi Mark, I’m looking forward to 12.04 release, as currently using your last LTS with much satisfaction for my main computer.

I was just wondering if you’ve had any problems at all getting unity accepted over gnome 2 in the corporate environment? Do you find the hardware is generally capable to run it, and that prospective customers aren’t put off by the new interface?

I don’t think I’m personally sold yet on Unity or Gnome 3 (although I’ve been testing both) – and am happier with gnome 2, but then I’m someone who uses workspaces a lot, and I find that is the main failing point of both of the newer desktops.

Wishing you all the best for 2012 and 12.04 – and will be excited to see what ubuntu will be doing this year.

All best,

Duncan

By: Skype in Ubuntu Precise alpha | Callum Macdonald

Skype in Ubuntu Precise alpha | Callum Macdonald — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:38:17 +0000

[...] night I installed Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04. I was inspired by Mark Shuttleworth’s post and figured because this is an LTS release, it might be ok to upgrade this early, instead of going [...]

By: faycel

faycel — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:40:37 +0000

Thanks MARK and all members of the Ubuntu team y did very good job

By: silian

silian — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:21:18 +0000

Ryan wrote, …thought it could never get better… ROFL, this is what I thought when 8.04 was released, but Mark, Canonical team, developers and community surprised me each upgrade again. Ubuntu is a miracle because of the people building it. Thank you! I also very much appreciate the transparency of communicating background processes.

@Marian Vasile, the bug is fixed; besides, in the meantime you could’ve only disabled grid-plugin.

By: Timo

Timo — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:57:49 +0000

Adam: Ubuntu has had a tool for that for over five years (apport), that said I don’t know the history behind creating abrt instead of using apport in Fedora..

By: Marian Vasile

Marian Vasile — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:01:32 +0000

I just wait to happen, because I am very tired because of the orange square bug in unity 11.10, maybe the LTS will fix this annoing issue; in fact I had to move to kubuntu to avoid this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/875557), but I miss unity interface.

By: Marcos Rey

Marcos Rey — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:32:31 +0000

My only hope is that Unity 3d desktop, could be faster in 12.04 than in ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04. Because until now it’s one of the slowlest and heavy desktops, and now i use lxde on mi laptop, also the unity 2d is buggy.