Well I've been playing with this on a Virtual Machine (under Windows 8 - WMWare Player) for about an hour now and..

 

It's FAST..

 

I allocated 1/2 a gig of memory to it and it's still bloody quick

 

First thoughts are it's well polished and faster than the old 12.04 LTS

 

I have purposely not read anything on it to try it first hand - Not noticed any significant changes to it's usability yet.

 

Am thinking of ditching Windows 8 completely and switching to Ubuntu as the server runs 12.04 at present and son's machine runs Edubuntu 12.04.

 

Both will be getting an upgrade before the end of this evening.

 

Anyone else (as geeky as me) excited by this and using a copy?  What are your thoughts?

Thanks for the update You have now given me something extra to do tomorrow. Better get on with downloading it tonight  

 

Will post my feedback after.

A fellow Geek - Wait till I tell SWMBO I have a friend 

 

She often calls me a geek - until I remind her she's marrying one, and it was a Geek that bought her Monte Carlo..  She soon stops (long enough to throw something at me).

the last Ubuntu builds I had I ditched and went back to Win 7.

Recently thinking to up the desktop to Win 7 64bit and install Ubuntu on the laptop.

 

*the last versions I used were Gutsy Gibbon and Hardy Heron.

Might give it a go. I currently use 12.04 on my netbook and the missus's PC, both really much faster than under windows.

Well I couldn't wait last night so I ended up installing both the Desktop and Server Version. I cannot really comment yet as I were viewing these over RDP (I had to RDP to home, then run them on my ESXI Hyper-visor.) 

 

One thing I did note though is the installation is very quick and once installed they seem to run quick too

 

Hotrod - Run these commands in terminal and you will then be able to use Remote Desktop to get to Ubuntu which runs faster than viewing it through the Vmware tools.

 

sudo apt-get install xrdp

service start xrdp

ifconfig lo up

 

You will need to know the IP address to RDP onto and you can get this by typing ifconfig.

 

Apoligises if I am "teaching my gran to suck eggs"

Not at all, maybe someone else didn't know they could do this.

When I said I was running it on VMware, its running locally on the laptop as a virtual machine. I always do this before major upgrades to see what's good and bad.

The server is a basic HP Microserver, which now runs 14.04 natively.

All machines have xrdp access so I don't need to get off my ass when my 9 yr old shouts down from upstairs that he can't do something on Edubuntu. Or, which is more often,he says has turned it off and getting ready for bed, but when I connect its still on. Strange how that happens

I used to upgrade to every new Ubuntu version but since 10.04 I've just stuck with the LTS versions. I'll put this on the laptop (runs Win 8.1 with Ubuntu 13.10 in VirtualBox) to start with, but might leave the rest till 14.04.1 is out. I've still got one sever on 10.04, though that primarily is a host for a Debian VM. My main desktop is a new build, and has 13.10 on it (12.04 was a bit fussy with some of the new hardware) so that will be next.

Has anyone tried Backtrack? 

 

Use it alot for penetration tests.

Has anyone tried Backtrack? 

 

Use it alot for penetration tests.

sounds like something one who frequents 'cottages' might use

Actually this week I began the final ditching of mac osx. But I'm dropping for mint 16, was toying with a more native debian experince, deb7 was/is solid.

 

On ubuntu as was, I didn't quite take to unity, maybe I should try again.

 

Although I cannot ditch win8 as I use it for testing and I'm actually liking aspects of it... mainly as it's a powerful tablet, win8 needs a touch screen, maybe unity did/does.

 

Bit skewed ubuntu dropping it's storage solution.

had it on for one hour so far. Firefox slower than ever on it, laggy as fook, only FB and Briskoda running.

 

Back to Win 7.

Are you running this in Vmware workstation Lee? maybe this is why you think it is slow

On ubuntu as was, I didn't quite take to unity, maybe I should try again.

...

Bit skewed ubuntu dropping it's storage solution.

You can remove unity and go with original gnome, KDE or any other window manager.

I'm a little miffed at Ubuntu One going. But just means I centralise everything on Google or amazon.

Going to be downloading it later and bung on a USB drive for a test drive. Running 12.04 but had issues with 13.04 and 13.10 due to the annoying broadcom wireless card in my laptop causing all manner of issues.

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Are you running this in Vmware workstation Lee? maybe this is why you think it is slow

eh? what's a vmware workstation lol. I downloaded it, burnt an ISO and installed it clean if that helps

Currently running it. Did the upgrade over the weekend. A couple of foibles. Network didn't work straight away. Then took me several frowns to recall the proper commands and such for activating it manually. (ifup/ifdown no worky, service networking.... no worky, had to ifconfig eth0 up and dhclient eth0 - so pretty basic to get it going).

 

I'd setup a bridge for pre-Raspberry Pi-ing with QEMU. The bridge was in .../network/interfaces but not eth0. In the end, simply added eth0 to .../network/interfaces file and commented out the bridge.

 

The odd warning about storage leaks using sudo... Tripped over something about nm-applet not starting and how to recover it.

 

Apart from that, <sniff> seems to work.

To bring up an interface it has always been ifconfig (interface) up / down, this isnt something new in this release.

So far I've just done the laptop. That was fairly easy as Ubuntu is just running as a VirtualBox virtual machine (Windows 8.1 host). So far it doesn't seem too different, but then I'm using the gnome session fallback desktop rather than Unity. Nothing appears to be broken so far, which is always a positive

Well it seems to run nicely on my laptop using a USB drive but I'm going to hold off the upgrade until the PPA for some important software I use catches up.

To bring up an interface it has always been ifconfig (interface) up / down, this isnt something new in this release.

 

Indeed, very old/traditional. In theory, ifup/down and service networking are (supposely) modern takes on the idea that simple commands are best. (Rather than knowledge ) .

Unix - cool 

 

Perhaps it is time for me to get back into it. I cut my teeth on Unix back in the 80's when we had to do everything via the command line.

 

I once did a weeks course at NCR on how to tune the Unix Kernel on the Tower range.

 

Most Kernels auto-tune these days.