Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - First Impressions Part Two
I spent some time this weekend exporing the new Linux Ubuntu 8.04 release. As I said in part one, I really enjoy how much snappier it is. All weekend long I made sure the 3D UI, compiz, was turned on. I found it to be much smoother then in the previous two versions.
During my second round of testing I focused on my Citrix connection to work. I had no issues and with the 3D UI turned on I actually got some of the fancy window open and close affects witht he Citrix windows that were running on a Windows 2003 server at work.
I played several type of videos at several sites, YouTube etc and had no issues.
The only glitch which I shoud report, is the Update program leaves windows fragments on the desktop after checking for updates.
So what is the bottome line? For me, I got a whle,bunch of updates, the core OS, the UI, and many programs and continued using my computer without any major issues. To me the is a huge success.
I strongly urge you to give Ubuntu a try.
7 months ago