On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:39 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious, why not use the latest Ubuntu? Is there a problem with the > newer releases?
No - not at all. I'm running Ubuntu at home. 12.04 was the very first release that survived an update btw. And I even happen to like Unity. Finally something different, good looks and incredible finishing touch ! (sorry guys :-) But for work I want something lightweight (XFCE) and functional to coax the maximum out of it. Preferably with rolling updates to be sure I'm not murdering the machine after a major release upgrade. Currently I'm using Mint Debian. But the support for Nvidia Twinview is a bit shaky. It crashes as soon as I'm trying to go to character mode. I've already lost data doing a reckless CTRL-ALT-F1 in dual screen mode. :-) And probably it can be repaired with some hacking. But that's exactly what I want to avoid: hacking on my work machine. I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04 (I plan to just stay synced on the current > final release) for my development workstation and I love it. My only gripe > is switching between different external monitors on my laptop requires > command line commands rather than working automatically. > With NVidia you've got the excellent nvidia-settings. Yes, it's closed-source, but the alternatives are no way near as fast and stable. (sorry again :-) > Compared to Windows, it's much better suited for JVM development. The > shells are dramatically better (although I never fully explored alt-shell > options on Windows). You have proper soft links (I just learned that NTFS > has them, and I'm not sure how well they work). It's more responsive, the > software repo is nicer, the GUI is cleaner/simpler, and all my main apps > are fully cross platform Win/Mac/Linux. > That's right ! > > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:06:41 AM UTC-5, Andrzej Grzesik wrote: >> >> If you have the time, why not. >> I'm a lazy person, I'm sticking with Ubuntu 11.04 so far, does the job, 2 >> and 3 screen configuration (dual geforce cards). >> JVMs work, jee works, nothing really to complain about. No major updates, >> no fights here as well. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/QlYuSOyYVYYJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
