April 29, 2010. Ubuntu 4.10 LTS comes out, that, according to what they say, should be one of the best release ever.
Yes I know, I always say, but rumor is that this time's right. Over the years
distributions I tried really a lot 'and Ubuntu is one with which I was better.
This could perhaps be the right time I get up Windows from your feet ...
And yes, because my problem has always been that. Thanks to Steve Jobs and his fucking iPod Touch I have always been forced to keep Windows unless you are having to make somersaults in unlikely, but one of the much vaunted new features the latest release of Ubuntu is its native support for iPod Touch, which lights up my heart with hope nerd.
then begin the usual preparatory ritual:
- Back-up data on hard-disk
- Waiting spasmodic release of the ISO
- Creation of USB bootable installation
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Since my laptop now begins to have a certain age, I decided to opt for Xubuntu, the so-called alternative diet.
Everything is going smoothly, the beauty of the installation takes 11 minutes and 30 seconds (timed), the launch takes place in 33.4 seconds.
And finally here I am faced with my much-needed operating system, with the poor graphics and no frills like so much to us that today's youth and a fair allocation of software.
There is even GIMP
for reasons of space, but was removed from the standard Ubuntu. For reasons of lightness
OpenOffice is replaced by
AbiWord and Gnumeric
, I personally find it better with OpenOffice, especially because AbiWord does not support the creation of PDF files, and then proceed to install it.
First impressions are broadly positive. A want to be picky in the integration panel of some programs (Pidgin
in particular) leave a bit 'to be desired, but apart from that all is well.
install another pair of crap and then I am going to the nines.
connect my iPod Touch. It does not happen
shit!
After the first moment of panic, I make sure that everything is in order. And indeed it is (or should be ...), the libraries are installed, the iPod is detected (via shell) and I can even mount it as a mass storage device but neither Exaile (media player installed by default) or Rhythmbox observe that the exposure the media device.
cazzeggiano a bit 'in the network and discover the bitter truth. The library
libimobiledevice is integrated with the GNOME desktop
and KDE
but not with that of
XFCE. I am so
point and over again.
But with the cock back to Windows, rather install Ubuntu, because my laptop, with its 512 MB of RAM and its 2 GHz processor is still in the security zone of the minimum richiesti.E then let's face it, delete the bullshit like the 3D desktop that you really like young people today and avoiding to run 15 applications at once I should not have major performance problems.
And then again:
- Download the ISO
- I create the bootable USB
- I install
And I must say I am pleasantly surprised.
Installation,
admirable dictu, it is even (slightly) faster than Xubuntu: 9 minutes and 40 seconds!
Startup time is a bit 'longer (39.6 seconds) but vabbeh, trifles.
And here I am to contemplate the bright lynx in all its glory ...
over previous versions immediately catch the eye a couple of graphic differences. The background color
poo (or foundation, whatever you want ..) that served as the master in the previous editions has been replaced by a purple background, and rumor that it is not at all pleased to dear Silvio ...
window management buttons are now on the left instead of right. I know not why sincerely, but it seems to have welcomed so good Walter, nobody had the courage to tell him that he has nothing to do shit ...
Another new feature called "Social" menu, a menu that combines all the amenities that we love so much modern misfits, namely chat, email and (especially) social networking microbloging and so on and on and so us.
What's more, this is also the 'Ubuntu
One Music Store, music store integrated by default in Rhythmbox whose proceeds are donated
in part to fund conservation of the Iberian Lynx
. As if to say: "Not only do we break the balls Steve Jobs, but also do good ... "
For the rest everything nel'ordinario.
As mentioned GIMP is missing, but you need to install.
do not understand why then, Skype has disappeared from the medibuntu repository
, but again not bad because you can always download from the site.
usually install my Giga additional software and I am going back to test the iPod.
connects it and this time works great!
icon appears on the desktop, I can explore it as a device and I can use Rhythmbox to sync music. In short the last two years the dream come true.
If we really want to be sboroni (modestly and I am ...) you can even compile the source code for the latest version of libimobiledevice and at that point that the real fun begins.
completing the final version of the library (especially
sbmanager and
ideviceinstaler that depend on it) can indeed access the iPod from the desktop, and you can install new applications as well as backup the device, be noted however that these two operations are currently supported only by the command line. Obviously
compile sources is rarely painless and in fact to me it was fine except compiling sbmanager, which continues to be interrupted for an unknown error.
Vabbeh, it means that I can not fuck with icons, you know what a tragedy. Sooner or later it will come at the head or (more likely) will release the package.
To sum up I can say that Ubuntu is that Xubuntu 10:04 behave very well.
Were it not for the lack of integration of libimobiledevice in XFCE desktop I would definitely opt for Xubuntu given its lower use of resources, but on balance (and the precautions) Ubuntu also runs fairly quickly on a lapotop like mine that has now the beauty of six years.
I know just that at this point I left Windows definitely behind.
And sorry if it's just ...
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for the "stagger, but do not give up, it goes without saying that the idea of \u200b\u200bnot being able to compile a program for managing the iPod Touch (the infamous sbmanager, for instance) I had not gone down at all. And so, after consulting the program's author (who
thank ) discover what is the mystery: it goes without saying there was no library ... And the idiot
good, you say.
In fact I said the same thing ...
Not that the idea of \u200b\u200ban unresolved dependency I had not touched, the fact is that the error obtained at compile time (syntax error, actually ...) was so extraordinary that, my defense, I was not able to figure out exactly what was missing the program.
Whatever it is, once you've solved the latter problem, the compilation and installation of sbmanager are spun as smooth as oil, and now I can bearmi my iPod in every way.
said that, in light of last week a savage, I can confirm (if indeed it were needed) that Ubuntu 4.10 LTS not only continues to be a great operating system, but also as an excellent alternative to any proprietary system on the market.
It would say: finally!