Comments on: What’s new with Ubuntu?

By: psypher246

psypher246 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:00:00 +0000

This is most likely due to Optimus. It could be that in mint it’s defaulting to the intel GPU and ubuntu is trying to install the Nvidia GPU, perhaps! Not having optimus support is not the fault of the distro. It’s a anti-competitive issue between Nvidia and Intel and as usual the consumers suffer for it. but there has been strides made recently to fix the issue.

By: psypher246

psypher246 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Jacques when you plug in the dongle click the network indicator, right at the bottom do you see the “Enable mobile broadband” option. Click it then setup your broadband connection as always, unless it’s already setup. This is a new feature of 12.04, it got me stuck as well the first time I installed. Dongle works just like it always has, just had to enable it.

By: undercoverMunky

undercoverMunky — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:20:00 +0000

I have similar issues on a new i5. During the install all the windows are corrupted and have really messed text. After booting the screen just turns off…

Interestingly enough I tried with Fedora 17 as well and ran into the same issues. I think the problem could be Gnome related OR the graphics drivers for the new Intel’s don’t exist yet…

By: Andrew Craucamp

Andrew Craucamp — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:43:00 +0000

Ubuntu is not a Linux distribution in the same way Android is not a Linux distribution. They are independent operating systems which simply use the Linux kernel. This is an important misunderstanding.

Applications written for “Linux” may indeed work on Ubuntu but it probably won’t. It would be more accurate to say that Ubuntu is a Debian distribution. Android runs Android apps, Ubuntu runs Debian apps.

Both platforms can be hacked to run “Linux” apps but the average user should not expect to be able to pull this off.

By: James Etherington-Smith

James Etherington-Smith — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:57:00 +0000

Thanks, error fixed.

By: Marti van Lin

Marti van Lin — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 03:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the nice article Jeremy! 12.10 is not a Long Term Support release, 12.04 was. 12.10 is a regular release (2 years of support).

By: Ian Levinson

Ian Levinson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:12:00 +0000

well I hope the new version is a lot better than the present one, Just upgraded to I7 and all I get when trying to install ubuntu is a flashing curser, Linux Mint installs perfectly. A lot of people have been having the same issue

By: James Etherington-Smith

James Etherington-Smith — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Fixed, thanks.

By: Myucapp

Myucapp — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Lol thanks man! I never heard a no operating systems.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Ubuntu 12.20 aint not version I ever heard of!