Comments on: Ubuntu 8.04: Now With A Better Feature List

By: Brisbane web designer

Brisbane web designer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:44:38 +0000

I’ve just installed Ubuntu Hardy on my Father-in-laws notebook as an alternative to Vista. he loves it and can’t belive that it’s so fast and free.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:25:56 +0000

john – As Lance said, Compiz Fusion is only unstable on some hardware. I am using some old integrated graphics and I never have any problem with Compiz. Not all the effects work, but that is a different issue. All the basic ones work perfectly for me.

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:13:31 +0000

Depends on your hardware. Compiz is very stable and worthwhile on good Nvdia cards for instance. There may be some glitch occasionally because it’s always under development. But Compiz is a great way to get people’s attention because it’s very hard to break the Windows desktop inertia. I do think people should use Linux with or without Compiz though. Linux is about stability.

By: dougfractal

dougfractal — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:51:47 +0000

max stirner Says: “annoys me about it is the nonsense flash”

It’s not flash it’s javascript. It’s still annoying, but I kinda like well written javascript.

Good distro though.

By: john

john — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:06:11 +0000

Maybe Compiz Fusion is left out because it really is not ready for prime time. It may be fine to make some You Tube videos and win over some youthful converts, but…

It adds instability to a system whose main selling point is stability. It increases the resources necessary to run the OS at the very same time that low resource necessities are being promoted.

Compiz Fusion is great if you do not depend on your computer. However, anyone who needs to use their box to get things done has already learned to leave that monstrosity disabled. Go peruse the support forums of most any distro and see the problems that Compiz causes–this is not the way to win converts that will stick with it…you may win a few kids who are only into the kewl factor, but you will turn off many many more and who knows how long before they try (what is otherwise a great distro/OS) again.

By: max stirner

max stirner — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:49:58 +0000

what really annoys me about it is the nonsense flash changing photos animation, which is very very slow on my linux flash implementation (firefox 3pre)