Some impressions from the test drive of Ubuntu 9.04 beta

It took me to test some niksovy software, and I decided to quickly put ubuntu. I thought to put 8.10, but I learned that there is already beta 9.04, the final version of which is released on April 23, and set.

UPD : Changed the set of screenshots, new theme Dust Sand

I get the Internet through PPTP , at the time of installation I decided not to bother with the connection and installed it like this. I used ext4 as FS.
After the reboot, I was very surprised at the download speed, I didn’t detect it, but it’s about 10-15 seconds by eye — this is from the end of POST until the desktop appears and the hard disk is hard to access. The terminal did not immediately find. Used ALT + F2 - xterm . What is not happy, the interface of the terminal with each version of ubunt is more ugly. Reminds terminal in Mac OS X.
Localization? So it is, half of the menus are not Russified. Well, set the desired localization. I tried to connect a VPN , but this item was not available in the Network Manager 'e, and remained. Apparently, network-manager-pptp is a very controversial thing in terms of licensing. Well, I installed the pptp-linux package in the old fashioned way and created the necessary files.
I tried to install drivers on my Geforce 8500GT automatically, but did not find versions in the repositories younger than 173. I downloaded from the Nvidia website and installed 180.44. What pleases the installer does not fall out with the requirement to install libc6-dev .
After connecting, I did not see any update notifications, I used alt + f2 - update-manager . Downloaded 300+ MB updates.
After all this, I felt like in slippers.
It seems that the speed of disk operations has increased noticeably, and I don’t notice the already barely noticeable but annoying brakes with drawing windows, the tabs in FF are switched without glitches.
I am writing this text now from Ubuntu.
At the end of a few screenshots, pictures are clickable.


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