[GRLUG] Ubuntu 12.10

[John Wesorick]

They seemed to have made LDAP integration slightly less buggy. With 12.04 I
could login using LDAP w/o issue maybe 1 out of 5 times. With 12.10, I
CAN'T login maybe 1 out of 5 or 6 times. I did have issues with the
proprietary NVidia driver, but the open-source driver works well enough
that I didn't play around with it. I like the Google Docs integration with
the file lens in the Dash. Web apps seem like they may be cool, but I
haven't played with them enough. The Dash is better (after you remove the
Amazon/Ubuntu One lens via 'sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping', and
you can now add/remove apps right from the Dash by right-clicking on them.
You can also now close windows from the all windows view (ctrl-w), which is
nice. The last improvement I noticed is better global menu integration with
more apps. Libre Office now actually uses it and doesn't have issues where
you can't get back to an open doc after using another app.

Also, for those with Chrome issues try using Chromium (the open-source
version of Chrome, it's in the repos). It seems to be slightly more stable,
and the official Chrome hasn't been updated for 12.10 yet. Chrome has some
dependency issues if you watch it install, but it seems to still install
fine, which may be part of the bugginess.

Overall I think it is worth it to upgrade.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  I've been seeing
> chrome crash a fair bit on 12.04 LTS.
> Never saw that before.  I removed almost
> all the extensions, but that didn't help.
> Audio Player crashed on many versions, but
> VLC is quite stable.  And there are
> issues with YouTube on Chrome, but
> not Firefox.
>
> Otherwise things are fine.......  :-(
>
>    -- Bob
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Edwardo Fuentes <edwardo.fuentes at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> i have been on 12.10 for about a week.
>> I installed straight to 12.10 so never played with 12.04 LTS
>> Chrome & Rhythm box both keep crashing and sometimes movie player.
>> I have had the most fun with 10.04 LTS &  never had these crashing issues.
>>
>> Thanks;
>> Edwardo
>> 616.834.3023
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Roger Roelofs <roger.roelofs at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I've been using it for a week or maybe two.  As usual they have a couple
>>> wrinkles to iron out.  I can hardly tell the difference, so I don't see any
>>> reason to hurry the upgrade.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:06 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:34:41PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>>>> > It's been out a while now.  Anyone here using it have anything really
>>>> > good or bad to say about it?
>>>> >
>>>> > i.e., any good reason to upgrade from 12.04 LTS?
>>>>
>>>> You mean other than it's Ubuntu?  :)
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