Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed

[chipped]

For people comparing this to OS X and Windows, your dreaming. Ubuntu is comparable to Windows XP, you still have to use command line to do some things. Tasks are complicated than they should be. I use Ubuntu as a home server and also use a Windows 7, Windows XP and OS X machines daily.

Ubuntu is lacking across. Its not ready to compete yet, it still has toomany issues. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it will never catch up. At the moment, buying a nice new computer and putting Ubuntu on it, would be like buying a Ferrari and dragging it around with horses.

 

[islseur]

For all the people complaining about no Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 comparisons as if someone is trying to hide something on purpose. Did you hear about a thing called Google?

A simple search for "Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04" brings about a wealth of information and comparisons. Here's some:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part1&num=1
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/boot-race-video-ubuntu-1004-vs-windows.html

The fact is that Ubuntu 10.04 trades blows with windows 7 and the boot of ubuntu 10.04 is faster than win7.

As one of the posters noted here, windows gets so ridiculously slow overtime due to it's tendency of being like a garbage bin, notably after you install/uninstall programs. This is one of the reasons why I left windows something like 7 years ago after using windows for something like 10 years.

What I can tell you is that I'm very pleased with Kubuntu. I'm running the 7.04 version over an old machine by now for more than 3 years without reinstalling and the thing just works like a beast with the same speed launching the programs and everything just like I installed it yesterday.

Who has spare strengths, time and nerves to reinstall windows every 6 month with all the custom setting's and all the programs again and again and again just so you keep your computer usable and working in full speed and not wasting your time?

I keep a dual boot win XP for games and maybe a win only application I need to run sometimes and that's just it.

When I buy my next rig I just load it with Kubuntu 10.04 LTS, set it up the way I want and forget about it for the next 3 years. Remember there are a lot of people that just don't have the spare time to babysit the robot all the time, folks like students, busy business people...etc.

Anyway I like kubuntu very much and am sure to upgrade to it the next time. Thanks to all the developers and people that put their precious time and effort to develop this FREE open source marvel that people can use.

 

[Guest]

For me 10.04 has been a rock solid performer on the older hardware I have already running linux, but I must admit the crappy intel 3D video drivers in Linux are no Match for the support in Windows. Windows 7 does mean that I dualboot more into Windows than I used to simply because '7 doesn't suck the life out of my laptop the way Vista did, and suspend/hibernate is much faster, but when on mains power on my desk, Linux is the OS I choose to boot (and when I want more than 3 hrs battery life. I can get an extra hour out of Linux) - fewer restarts for patches, all the software I use is free, and the kids cant install crappy games on it (they have an Xbox - go use that)
Ubuntu is a great desktop system, but I prefer OpenSuse for my servers - They have more stuff setup by default that make them server frendly, and YaST is a perfect tool for adminnistering all the server side packages I use - SQUID, DNS, DHCP, SAMBA etc. All these work fine in Ubuntu too, but YaST just makes administering them easier.

 

[Guest]

If you want to move the window buttons and arrange them like MS-Windows, do Alt-F2 and paste in the following command:

gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/metacity/general/button_layout :minimize,maximize,close

The ":" separates the left and right halves of the titlebar. And of course you can choose any button order you like, including leaving one or more of the buttons off the list.

 

[Guest]

i was a full time ubuntu (specially 9.10) user, but i've problem with ubuntu 10.04. i can't run it in my pc!! new ubuntu can't recognize my new Radeon HD5770. when it is starts, monitor sleeps! (note: i had a 4850 before and it worked perfect with ubuntu 9.10 and older versions, but now 5770 doesn't work with ubuntu 10.04)

now what should i do?!!

 

[perzy]

What people know but seem to ignore is that Linux is a server-OS and the kernel guys don't give a rats ass about the desktop. Hence no gaming, hence slow response to user commands. Since no distro even talks about modding the kernel scheduler for the benefit of desktop users, they are just after selling to businesses. The desktop distro's is just advertising. If someone really built an kernel scheduler for the desktop (no, windows and OSX are not optimized for the desktop either but a bit better) it would be blistering fast and nice.

 

[mitch074]

the problem with fakeraid in Ubuntu (and Linux in general): don't. It's not worth it.

- chipset makers don't provide specifications for a Linux driver for their fake RAID firmwares: all there is, is reverse engineered (or made from scarse documentation);
- fake RAID has lower (yes, LOWER) performance than the built-in software RAID driver in Linux, and is less flexible.

All in all, fake RAID is a bad idea - the firmwares more often than not suck (making reliability hard to assess), the drivers suck (making reliability even harder to assess), and there is a better alternative anyway: the kernel's md (MultiDisk) handles RAID 0,1,4,5,6 and 10, has powerful tools provided with it, and handles most maintenance in the background (you could be rebuilding your array 'live' and not even notice it - I know mine did).

If you want to do RAID without a dedicated RAID controller, trye the 'alternate' Ubuntu install CD, as the normal one doesn't provide all the tools for that.

 

[Guest]

Obviously none of the test machines had nvidia, ati or intel video cards...which are incompatible with 10.04

 

[Guest]

IBM T22:
1) Suspend/Standby/Sleep worked intermittently with 10.4, would go to sleep then instantly awake, frustrating.
2) Sound failed to work. Start up sound, drums would work then sound stopped after that. Tried some work arounds, but nothing works now. Sound didn't work in 9.10 either.
3) Wireless is less reliable in 10.4. First time wireless worked for me "out to the box" was with Ubuntu 9.10 and was very reliable, and it worked better than XP, different story with 10.4, not reliable, lost connections, difficulty acquiring signal.
4) 10.4 crashed a few times, never had a crash with 9.10
5) Installed and used Ubuntu 9.10 Oct 09 - Jun 10, really liked it despite not having sound, then 10.4 for couple of weeks. Need sound, back to XP. Maybe next version sound will work and I'll try again? XP forever?
6) Firefox really slow on banking site in Ubuntu.

 

[Sahand-Tabriz]

the new ubuntu is is just a super fail!...

 

[hangfirew8]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]Obviously none of the test machines had nvidia, ati or intel video cards...which are incompatible with 10.04[/citation]

While I momentarily took this for a troll, it is essentially correct... due to the newer xorg kernel mode setting in 10.04, many DirectX 7/8/9 era cards have been abandoned or are poorly supported. This is being worked but the timing was poor for an LTS release based on this transitional xorg X11.

On top of that, the latest Core i3/5 Intel drivers are not mature yet, either. I'm sure this will be fixed in updates, but for many folks trying Ubuntu out on older systems, this release is a big disappointment (myself included).

 

[bmgoodman]

Let me say that I tried the new desktop version plus the netbook remix. I was SORELY disappointed that the desktop version (on a USB flash drive) would not work with wireless on either a Dell laptop or an HP netbook. I tried a number of things to get it working, but no joy. Then I tried the netbook version and booted it on my HP netbook. And it wouldn't get past a black screen that said the video wasn't compatible and did I want to use default settings. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it past that screen.

Anyway, as much as I like the CONCEPT and competition, too often I still have hardware issues when I try Linux. I'm not willing to give up entirely, but many many new users will.

 

[Guest]

I had the same installation problems with this version as everyone else until I tried the alternative install, which is like a command line install. It is working great. I have it on a dell dimension b110 it has a 2.53 GHz celeron processor and 1.5 gigs of memory. The only negative that I see is on some sites flash video is still slow.

 

[sprunth]

+1 for benchmark vs Windows

Also, why the change of color for 10.04 in the benchmarks...green to blue to green to blue (in file copy)? It makes it harder to read.

 

[nightcrawl3r]

I tried Ubuntu like a month ago but I wasn't good with that console thing where you type in commands to do something. I hope they make it more easy for people who are newbies to Linux.