Hello Ian, Roy..... (just saying hi, still a new-ish member) I have a sort of "reading room" forum that I continually post stuff to like a squirrel hut. Indeed I had posted a good handful of in-the-news- items about Ubuntu 11.04 .
I have been following Ubuntu for several years back to about the time they came out with Wubi as a "prototype" - not as some beta or something. I got that to run okay. Well things lead to Ubuntu being about the first, if not actually the first, to come out with the Netbook Edition for Linux - Ubuntu Linux. This was the Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS Netbook Edition and it worked like a charm on an EEE PC 900 Netbook I have. (Only 12 Gig solid state drive ! ) Okay so said all that to say this. The Ubuntu 11.04 is the first release (and all after) now that has consolidated the download / install as an all-in-one download. There will no longer be a separate Netbook Edition. Installing 11.04 (and after) to a netbook will be automatically detected to install the correct optimized version for netbooks. Immediately below is an news article about this. As well it has been posted around by Ubuntu (maybe Canonical too) somewhere - most likely at their sites, forums, and blogs. (I didn't have those links). Below that article are a good handful of articles to check out for this new release, although now not the latest. BTW by the way I am running Ubuntu 11.04 myself for months now after upgrading from 10.10. I really like it. Navigation is so fast with simply the hover over / hide navigation of desktop links, bar. Very sleek and fast. ((( I can not find Klam antivirus for download which was available in previous versions in the Software Repository (Ubuntu Software). Clam antivirus is available. Klam works on KDE I believe but has a heck of interface with in house malware library and other features Clam does not. ))) Ubuntu 11.04 will be Optimized for All Platforms Techtree.com Installing Ubuntu Linux on a netbook entailed a search for the latest version of the specially optimized netbook editions. This will be a thing of the past as Ubuntu is doing away with different optimizations of the base Ubuntu version. ... http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Ubtunu_1104_will_be_Optimised_for_All_Platforms/551-114764-580.html Ubuntu 11.04 - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ZDNet UK (blog) By JA Watson , 30 April, 2011 08:22 Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7. I've just been reading the comments to my previous post, ... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/ubuntu-1104-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-10022334/ Ubuntu 11.04 Adds OpenStack to Linux InternetNews.com By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: The Ubuntu 11.04 Linux release is due out next week and with it will debut a new open source cloud platform. The Ubuntu 'Natty' release will include OpenStack, which is an open source effort that ... http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3931556/Ubuntu+1104+Adds+OpenStack+to+Linux.htm New Nvidia Linux Driver Supports Ubuntu 11.04 - Softpedia The driver will indeed support other linux distros as it always has. It supports the X.org version that Ubuntu uses and that is what the author of the ... http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Nvidia-Linux-Driver-Supports-Ubuntu-11-04-196264.shtml Ubuntu 11.04 - Notes, Tips and Warnings ZDNet UK (blog) By JA Watson , 29 April, 2011 10:30 Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7. As anyone who has any interest in Linux at all knows (and most of those ... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/ubuntu-1104-notes-tips-and-warnings-10022328/ SOURCES http://linuxducks.free-forums.org/linux-news-and-views-vf14.html Home http://linuxducks.free-forums.org/index.php On 10/25/2011 08:23 AM, Ian wrote: > > Roy while I may not use them all I and perhaps other would like to know > what some of the more useful features in 11.04 do and where to find them. > > -- > Ian > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
