I'm sorry that my earlier warnings about Oneiric were mis-numbered as 10.10. Actually, 10.10 (Maverick) was probably the most stable Ubuntu release!
Here's another short dispatch from the bleeding edge. I am running the stock 11.10 now on four machines; two were fresh installs and two were upgrades. The fresh installs have been fine for the most part. The upgrades were both problematic as I documented in my earlier, mis-numbered posting. I have found another solution for the upgrades which anyone mad enough to try Oneiric may find useful: I switched from the new lightdm display manager back to gdm. They are now both pretty stable, and with the new kernel hibernate / suspend are working properly for the first time on all four machines. The new desktops Unity and Gnome3 both work well for those (like my wife) who prefer all their windows maximized and who use relatively few different programs - it's easy enough to get all the icons on to the launcher. The new style minimized scrollbars take some getting used-to, but with familiarity they do a good job of maximizing useful screen real-estate, and when working with an IDE such as Eclipse, Komodo etc. this pays dividends. I hope to bring my laptop on Tuesday week to give the curious a low-risk glimpse of Canonical's new baby! Regards to all, CPKS -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
