Ubuntu 11.04 Countdown
Looking Forward to Natty Narwhal – Ubuntu 11.04 Beta is out!
I’m really looking forward to the latest version of Ubuntu, and you should be too! Here is some quick info about the new version and a link to get the beta!
Ubuntu Unity Not Quite Unified
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Today I decided to upgrade my Netbook from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 so that I could test out the Unity interface without having conflicts from my custom settings I had going on with the previous interface…
The Good
On one hand I have to say it is a lot cleaner and more crisp than I had first thought. The glitchy/buggy issues I was having with the menu/title bar were gone and the launcher bar seemed to work correctly this time. Also the overhead hub (or whatever they call it) for viewing files and applications seemed to be better as well.
The Bad and The Ugly
So what didn’t I like? Getting to my files was a major pain! I
Boot problems…
So I spent the past couple days helping my brother-in-law try to figure out why he was having issues booting not one, but two Ubuntu installations…
They were both Ubuntu 9.04, one being a single OS machine and the other a dual boot with some flavor of Windows (I never asked as I didn’t think it relevant, and it wasn’t). All of our correspondence was done via email and facebook.
I’m going to post a very ugly overview of the situation below (for anyone desperate, bored, or just curious), but it’s going to be ugly (at least for now) as I have little to no time to format it or include relevant commands and other details.
I have asked him