I decided to shift to 64bit Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) yesterday and installed it over my existing Ubuntu partition, now you might ask why I bothered with a clean install when I already upgraded to Jaunty a day before...To be honest, I really don't have a concrete reason except this weird feeling that the distro upgrade I performed was half-baked, notifications didn't work and it still has a sluggish feel. I might have been too excited about the whole thing that I didn't even notice that the automated installer did not wipeout the existing swap partition so I actually ended up with two swap files! Again the obsessive-compulsive in me was triggered and I performed the installation again, this time wiping out both my swap and root partition (using gparted) before installing Jaunty to disk. Ext4 is not the default filesystem for Jaunty btw and if you want that to happen you'll have to use manual partitioning. I chose ext3, deciding to shift to ext4 only if I find Jaunty slow the after installation. So after a few minutes I finally got it up and running and was immediately impressed by how fast it boots...22 secs! (cold booting) and thats not even ext4 yet!
This time my notification system finally worked. Everytime I receive a message in pidgin or a wifi signal is detected, I get a nice unobtrusive message that tells me what just happened. Jaunty is quite polished and has a very stable overall feel, not a very objective observation I know but Jaunty does live up to its name, its fast and the user experience is definitely improved. The wallpaper and theme hasn't changed much but thats what customization is for. Firefox is more responsive this time and flash support(flash64bit beta) has definitely improved. With Intrepid I experienced flash movies suddenly turning white and stopped playing or crashed the browser without warning...so far I haven't experienced that in Jaunty. If you want to install the 64bit version of flash make sure you removed the 32bit version first using synaptic then download here. I got the tar.gz version extracted libflashplayer.so and copied it to ~/.mozilla/plugins (create the folder if it doesn't exist).
Compiz worked fine after I upgraded Intrepid to Jaunty but curiously did not function once I did a clean install. I read somewhere that the devs explicitly blocked Intel graphics controllers because of stability issues with the driver (mine was GM965 Integrated Graphics Controller) however once I disabled the checks, Compiz worked fined without a hitch (however I'd still want the devs to fix whatever issues they find and add that later to the repos). If you have a GM956 like me you've been warned but if you like to make it work here is how I did it.
This is strictly a workaround folks...up until a real fix is given. Also you can install fusion-icon via synaptic(or add/remove) and reload the window manager, that should trigger compiz.
I'm still rebuilding my system right now, installing some of my favorite apps like gnome-do and vlc so I'll be a bit busy, you guys should try it out for a spin...again you can use the live-cd or better yet wubi (ubuntu installer for windows) if you're new to Linux and just want to have a feel for it. Otherwise forget about your current Intrepid installation and start upgrading :)
This time my notification system finally worked. Everytime I receive a message in pidgin or a wifi signal is detected, I get a nice unobtrusive message that tells me what just happened. Jaunty is quite polished and has a very stable overall feel, not a very objective observation I know but Jaunty does live up to its name, its fast and the user experience is definitely improved. The wallpaper and theme hasn't changed much but thats what customization is for. Firefox is more responsive this time and flash support(flash64bit beta) has definitely improved. With Intrepid I experienced flash movies suddenly turning white and stopped playing or crashed the browser without warning...so far I haven't experienced that in Jaunty. If you want to install the 64bit version of flash make sure you removed the 32bit version first using synaptic then download here. I got the tar.gz version extracted libflashplayer.so and copied it to ~/.mozilla/plugins (create the folder if it doesn't exist).
Compiz worked fine after I upgraded Intrepid to Jaunty but curiously did not function once I did a clean install. I read somewhere that the devs explicitly blocked Intel graphics controllers because of stability issues with the driver (mine was GM965 Integrated Graphics Controller) however once I disabled the checks, Compiz worked fined without a hitch (however I'd still want the devs to fix whatever issues they find and add that later to the repos). If you have a GM956 like me you've been warned but if you like to make it work here is how I did it.
mkdir ~/.config/compiz/compiz-managerecho "SKIP_CHECKS =yes" > ~/.config/compiz/compiz-managerThis is strictly a workaround folks...up until a real fix is given. Also you can install fusion-icon via synaptic(or add/remove) and reload the window manager, that should trigger compiz.
I'm still rebuilding my system right now, installing some of my favorite apps like gnome-do and vlc so I'll be a bit busy, you guys should try it out for a spin...again you can use the live-cd or better yet wubi (ubuntu installer for windows) if you're new to Linux and just want to have a feel for it. Otherwise forget about your current Intrepid installation and start upgrading :)
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