Comments on: And your favorite new feature in Jaunty Jackalope is … ?

By: apit

apit — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:31:58 +0000

i have been using it for a month now. for me, more stable than intrepid, , faster boot time, and slightly more polished dark theme.

By: Zack

Zack — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:42:54 +0000

The overall look of 9.04 is just gorgeous. I’ve been running the netbook version on my MSI u120 for the past few weeks and I _definitely_ prefer it to the default OS that was on it when I bought it (winXP).

I’m currently downloading the desktop version RC for my desktop right now! *excited*!

By: ccm

ccm — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:20:42 +0000

It’s interesting to see how different the new notification system is evaluated. Some users are quite enthusiastic about it while others have cannot accept it due to different reasons (colors, features, range of implementation).

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:00:36 +0000

Fast boot everytime.

By: Evildead

Evildead — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:19:01 +0000

The new notification system is just a way to say “look, there’s something new”, but it’s in no way better than the old one. Just because MS said “I don’t like buttons on notifications” we should completely get rid of them? That’s ridiculous.

Now, some of my applications show a dialog box when they should not (e.g., Decibel Audio Player when enabling the “skip track” action on notifications). The old system was working fine, so *why the hell change it*? Now the notifications are all black so that I can hardly read the text, and they stay for so little time on screen that I don’t have time to read what’s written on it.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:59:56 +0000

The new version of Networkmanager works far better than with previous versions, and Ext4 is great.

But favourite?

Simply that it works well (far better than 8.04 and 8.10), and that they seem to have done good, solid work with the KDE 4.2.2 implementation. Mind you there will be a few glitches due to the Qt 4.5 shift (officially due for KDE 4.3.)

Good thing with the new kernel/Xorg/Nvidia driver combo is that the suspend/hibernation issues are resolved. 9.04 works great with ThinkPad T61.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:40:36 +0000

1. Eye-candy, specifically the pretty new notifications.

2. Better support for multiple monitors (no more crashes or necessity to restart compiz after xrandr). There are still plenty of bugs left, but many were fixed.

-1 (aka top 1 misfeature): either the intel driver’s new slowness (with EXA) or stability problems (with UXA).

I have to say the prettiness of the new notifications significantly outweigh everything else. You may have noticed that I put a lot of value in aesthetics. (Not all the value, since I’m using a free OS instead of a Mac).

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:35:47 +0000

The reason why I switched to Jaunty some weeks ago was the free radeon driver which supports Xv and EXA for R6xx/R7xx (Radeon HD 2xxx/3xxx/4xxx) and do not have tearing problems like fglrx (see https://launchpad.net/bugs/303697 )