I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on two laptops by now. and I must rant. Ubuntu developers are assuming two many things about me. First, there is this bug, which the 'migration-assitant' mounts existing partitions in READ-WRITE mode. I find it dangerous and not necessary for migration.
Then, today I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on IBM x121e and found out that my Bluetooth chip is disabled. After about 20 min of looking I discovered, it is because of a bug in the installer which messes around with the BIOS. So if you have IBM x120e with Intel Chipset, you need to reboot, restore the BIOS defaults and then Bluetooth works.
That's all the ranting for now ...
Showing posts with label ubuntu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ubuntu. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Saturday, November 19, 2011
No more MONO on Ubuntu
Well, it's a quite a late response, but it ought to be. After Ubuntu has shoved Mono down our throats for quite a while, they have decided to retreat from it. As of Ubuntu 12.04 there will be no more Mono on the default install CD.
I want to curse Ubuntu devs for their actions so far, but their decision to drop Mono, for what ever reason, is a considered a blessing by me. I might even give it a spin again in 12.04 after about 2 years of not touching Ubuntu.
I want to curse Ubuntu devs for their actions so far, but their decision to drop Mono, for what ever reason, is a considered a blessing by me. I might even give it a spin again in 12.04 after about 2 years of not touching Ubuntu.
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Another crack in the Windows hagmony
For about 4 years now there is a possibility to get a Netbook with Linux. Now, there are many of them coming with Android and Meego.
Asus has been shipping Linux for quite some times. Unfortunately, always as a second citizen in it's laptops. The better models always
come with Windows. IMHO, it's stupid, because WIN7 just kills the system - i.e. WIN7 Boots slower than WINXP although the hardware
today is MUCH faster. But back to what I wanted to write about. Today this really caught my eyes browsing some laptops:
A Windows agnostic "WIN" button. I've seen that already in laptops which come with Ubuntu pre-installed, but first time I see it with a main line manufacturer!
Such a shame that the same model which comes in white does have the Win button.
The laptop by the way is ASUS Eee PC X101-BLK022G which comes pre-installed with Intel's Meego Linux distribution.
Friday, May 06, 2011
More UNITY Crap
Take a loot at this post. You need a "how to" to run multiple copies of the same program. Hmm... Ubuntu is turning Linux boxes into IPHONES who are locked down to run one application at the time.
Idiots. We have multicore processors, and more multithreaded applications, but Ubuntu users need a how to if they want to open two instances of GEDIT for example if they want to compare two documents, and NOT use TABS.
Honesty, the title of my previous post was "Are Linux developers getting dumber" maybe I should not have censor myself.
Idiots. We have multicore processors, and more multithreaded applications, but Ubuntu users need a how to if they want to open two instances of GEDIT for example if they want to compare two documents, and NOT use TABS.
Honesty, the title of my previous post was "Are Linux developers getting dumber" maybe I should not have censor myself.
Better Apps in Linux
I don't know why, but I have the feeling that the rise of Ubuntu, does not bring Linux forward. I have read a few posts about it. And I think that the focus of Linux developers is starting to annoy me so much that I am thinking of ripping Linux off my Laptop and just installing *BSD, although I'd have to twitch my nose, because I prefer GPL over BSD.
My rant is about things like GNOME3, KDE4, UNITY and stupidities like systemd. The first two idiotic examples are a proof of how FOSS developers can be totally disconnected from their users. I mean, KDE4 and GNOME3 both seek to re-invent the user experience. However, the firm hold of windows in the market, shows that user experience is not such big deal. Rather, I think, applications and stability are more important.
True, Windows suck big time. I hate the thought of using such a flawed OS. However, Windows Jane and Joe, don't care. They just want their Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat to work. And while cool Dave has his Unity blowing off cool effects, he can't properly annotate PDFs, while GNOME and Ubuntu developers are still fighting if the awesome bar should be in the bottom of the screen or on the left side.
Systemd, sounds really like an amazing piece of software, which can really fly my laptop to mars upon boot. However, I boot my computer only once in 2-3 months, when I upgrade my kernel, and frankly, I don't care if it takes 2 minutes to boot. The same is true for all Windows 7 users.
Last week, I was riding the train, and the guy next too me booted his Windows XP - took him 5 minutes until he got to his email software. But you know what ? When he did get to it, it worked.
I am at the point, that I am using Linux for 5 years now, and I will never install Windows on a friend's computer. However, I feel that Linux apps really annoy me sometimes. And this week, I just discovered it again, while downloading a PDF with FORMS, which only worked with ADOBE READER for Linux. Evince and Okular the two leading FOSS PDF readers just failed to fill the forms and save the document. Now you can tell me, I can open bugs - which I did (2 and 3 years ago) and they are still not attended, because like I said, the BAR and Desktop effects are more important. Of course, I can role my sleeves up, and put some effort and code it. But at the same time, I can just apt-get ADOBE Reader from Debian's non-free repository.
I hate that last option, and I wish it was the other way. So if some one in GNOME or KDE reads this post, please, forgot about stupid stuff like the SHELL or PLASMOIDS, we don't care about that crap. We want applications that can do more, for less memory, and for less CPU, that will be stable, and have more features than their WINDOWS counters. And then people will come.
This is also trough, not just for PDF reader, but to ALL KINDS of commercial software which abundant for WINDOWS but lack for Linux. The gaming industry has picked it up, and the picture is starting to change. Next I hope to see CAx software, accounting and banking, medical software and more. When these will come, it won't mater if Linux will have Plasmoids or Unity or the SHELL.
Want a Proof ? Look at MacOS, although it is a FAR better operating system then WINDOWS, it stayed always in a niche. Why ? Because Apple played close, and developers did not develop commercial apps to it, compared to the amount of apps available for Windows. Of course, commercial, does not have to be closed source. On the contrary, commercial should be open too.
But that is for another post.
I'll sum up, forgot the decorative stuff like SHELL, PLASMOIDS or UNITY. Give us better applications, better than WINDOWS, and people will rush to LINUX.
My rant is about things like GNOME3, KDE4, UNITY and stupidities like systemd. The first two idiotic examples are a proof of how FOSS developers can be totally disconnected from their users. I mean, KDE4 and GNOME3 both seek to re-invent the user experience. However, the firm hold of windows in the market, shows that user experience is not such big deal. Rather, I think, applications and stability are more important.
True, Windows suck big time. I hate the thought of using such a flawed OS. However, Windows Jane and Joe, don't care. They just want their Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat to work. And while cool Dave has his Unity blowing off cool effects, he can't properly annotate PDFs, while GNOME and Ubuntu developers are still fighting if the awesome bar should be in the bottom of the screen or on the left side.
Systemd, sounds really like an amazing piece of software, which can really fly my laptop to mars upon boot. However, I boot my computer only once in 2-3 months, when I upgrade my kernel, and frankly, I don't care if it takes 2 minutes to boot. The same is true for all Windows 7 users.
Last week, I was riding the train, and the guy next too me booted his Windows XP - took him 5 minutes until he got to his email software. But you know what ? When he did get to it, it worked.
I am at the point, that I am using Linux for 5 years now, and I will never install Windows on a friend's computer. However, I feel that Linux apps really annoy me sometimes. And this week, I just discovered it again, while downloading a PDF with FORMS, which only worked with ADOBE READER for Linux. Evince and Okular the two leading FOSS PDF readers just failed to fill the forms and save the document. Now you can tell me, I can open bugs - which I did (2 and 3 years ago) and they are still not attended, because like I said, the BAR and Desktop effects are more important. Of course, I can role my sleeves up, and put some effort and code it. But at the same time, I can just apt-get ADOBE Reader from Debian's non-free repository.
I hate that last option, and I wish it was the other way. So if some one in GNOME or KDE reads this post, please, forgot about stupid stuff like the SHELL or PLASMOIDS, we don't care about that crap. We want applications that can do more, for less memory, and for less CPU, that will be stable, and have more features than their WINDOWS counters. And then people will come.
This is also trough, not just for PDF reader, but to ALL KINDS of commercial software which abundant for WINDOWS but lack for Linux. The gaming industry has picked it up, and the picture is starting to change. Next I hope to see CAx software, accounting and banking, medical software and more. When these will come, it won't mater if Linux will have Plasmoids or Unity or the SHELL.
Want a Proof ? Look at MacOS, although it is a FAR better operating system then WINDOWS, it stayed always in a niche. Why ? Because Apple played close, and developers did not develop commercial apps to it, compared to the amount of apps available for Windows. Of course, commercial, does not have to be closed source. On the contrary, commercial should be open too.
But that is for another post.
I'll sum up, forgot the decorative stuff like SHELL, PLASMOIDS or UNITY. Give us better applications, better than WINDOWS, and people will rush to LINUX.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Wow, Long time ago ... My last post ages ago was a rant about Uhbuntu ...
Needless to say that since then, I have quit using Uhbunutu as my main Desktop, and moved to Debian and ArchLinux. I also play extensively with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and at work my workstation is OpenSUSE from which I maintain mostly CentOS servers. But no Uhbuntu ...
Needless to say that since then, I have quit using Uhbunutu as my main Desktop, and moved to Debian and ArchLinux. I also play extensively with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and at work my workstation is OpenSUSE from which I maintain mostly CentOS servers. But no Uhbuntu ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Ubuntu Gutsy is Bloatware. The latest ubuntu distro is terrible, comparing with the previous one, Feisty Fawn.
Cases like this make me think about the 6 months release cycle, and really appreciate my Debian stable, which is old, but working. So why am I saying Ubuntu Gutsy is terrible ?
First, upgrading breaks USB mounting. During Beta testing phase many people reported that upgrading will break mounting of external disks. Well, the guys in Canonical think this is not important, and released without supplying an adequate solution.
This is wrong, because it hearts product loyalty. Many users, like me are loyal until something just happens. I've used Ubuntu from version 6.04 to 7.10 as main laptop working station. Prior to this, I've use SuSE, until their terrible package management drove me away ! Now with Ubuntu 7.10 being so bad, I looking for alternatives.
Second, Gutsy has many great features, but do we need them all ? Canonical, has done a great job winning the linux desktop, and now is aiming for the server and corporate market. But I suspect that some decisions are just to biased. For example, the inclusion of AppArmor and SELinux. Security is important feature of any OS and linux is already doing a great job. Do desktop users need such enhanced security as AppArmor or SElinux, which is implemented in the NSA ?
Well, the reason I rant about that is that, both services slow down boot times significantly, and remind me the days I've been working with OpenSuSE 10.1, which was slugish. I used ubuntu 7.04 on a small old laptop, which has a 500 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Boot time from GRUB to GDM took 1:47 minutes. With the new kernel and boot process it takes over 5 minutes!
Now, advanced users can of course disable AppArmor on boot time, but try removing the package libselinux - everything is dependent on it ! So it won't be removed.
So, old laptops will just work terribly slow with gutsy ! So does Tracker slows things down, and behaves in awkward ways. Tracker, SElinux, and AppArmor, are all great features, but are terribly heavy, and should not be installed on old computers. Hardware detection should do better and at least ask the user if they should be activated by default.
Eventually, I've ended up, burning another feisty CD, and reinstalling it. I'll wait and see what will be with ubuntu 8.04. If it won't work to my liking I'll completely switch to Debian. My server runs on it and I'm happy with it.
Cases like this make me think about the 6 months release cycle, and really appreciate my Debian stable, which is old, but working. So why am I saying Ubuntu Gutsy is terrible ?
First, upgrading breaks USB mounting. During Beta testing phase many people reported that upgrading will break mounting of external disks. Well, the guys in Canonical think this is not important, and released without supplying an adequate solution.
This is wrong, because it hearts product loyalty. Many users, like me are loyal until something just happens. I've used Ubuntu from version 6.04 to 7.10 as main laptop working station. Prior to this, I've use SuSE, until their terrible package management drove me away ! Now with Ubuntu 7.10 being so bad, I looking for alternatives.
Second, Gutsy has many great features, but do we need them all ? Canonical, has done a great job winning the linux desktop, and now is aiming for the server and corporate market. But I suspect that some decisions are just to biased. For example, the inclusion of AppArmor and SELinux. Security is important feature of any OS and linux is already doing a great job. Do desktop users need such enhanced security as AppArmor or SElinux, which is implemented in the NSA ?
Well, the reason I rant about that is that, both services slow down boot times significantly, and remind me the days I've been working with OpenSuSE 10.1, which was slugish. I used ubuntu 7.04 on a small old laptop, which has a 500 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Boot time from GRUB to GDM took 1:47 minutes. With the new kernel and boot process it takes over 5 minutes!
Now, advanced users can of course disable AppArmor on boot time, but try removing the package libselinux - everything is dependent on it ! So it won't be removed.
So, old laptops will just work terribly slow with gutsy ! So does Tracker slows things down, and behaves in awkward ways. Tracker, SElinux, and AppArmor, are all great features, but are terribly heavy, and should not be installed on old computers. Hardware detection should do better and at least ask the user if they should be activated by default.
Eventually, I've ended up, burning another feisty CD, and reinstalling it. I'll wait and see what will be with ubuntu 8.04. If it won't work to my liking I'll completely switch to Debian. My server runs on it and I'm happy with it.
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