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Ubuntu 9.04

June 12th, 2009 arun Leave a comment Go to comments

Just got it installed on my external USB disk. The installer totally rocks. Things I noticed (especially relative to Fedora 11):

  • Timezone picker widget is 100 times more usable
  • Does a much better job of detecting other OSes

Looks like the larger installed base of Ubuntu is clearly showing. The strength of Fedora is really that a lot of the Linux development still happens there. It’s just that Ubuntu looks a lot more polished at this point in time.

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  1. arun
    June 14th, 2009 at 20:00 | #1
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    Laptop speakers don’t work? Try these debs

    http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/downloads-ubuntu-x86_64.php

  2. arun
    June 14th, 2009 at 21:15 | #2
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    This is what is needed to get skype going:

    http://www.ubuntumini.com/2009/04/skype-on-dell-mini-9.html

    I wonder why the OS defaults to setting the volume to 0 and muting all input/output devices :(

  3. arun
    October 3rd, 2009 at 23:01 | #3
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    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent

    Installing Ubuntu on the USB drive

    has instructions on how to create a bootable SD card.

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