Re:KDE users could use FreeSpire out May 15th or s
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 28, 2007 05:27 AM
As for your first two complaints, I've found that Feisty is the first version to work adequately with my ThinkPad T60 w/ATI x1300. Previous version had _horrible_ suspend/resume issues, all of which seem to have finally been worked out with Feisty.
This was partly due to the newer kernel, partly the Ubuntu Devs, but mostly due to a newer ATI driver that addressed a long-standing resume bug. Ah, closed source drivers. The x1300 was my bane for almost a year. With 8.34.8, ATI finally has some reasonably stable drivers.
Very late in the Feisty development cycle, I actually found NetworkManager/udev working properly for the first time with the on-board Intel 3945 wifi.
While Edgy had a few nice features over Dapper, Feisty is absolutely worth the upgrade for laptop users.
As for battery life, my T60 dual-boots Vista. I can get about 2:45 in either Windows or Linux. I might get ten more minutes in Windows. Though this seems to have more to do with Vista being harder on the battery than XP was.
Anyway, Feisty was the first time in a long time for me that I thought a new Linux laptop might be an option. (Mow that ACPI support is getting a bit better, it must be just about time for ACPI2.)
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Re:KDE users could use FreeSpire out May 15th or s
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 28, 2007 05:27 AMThis was partly due to the newer kernel, partly the Ubuntu Devs, but mostly due to a newer ATI driver that addressed a long-standing resume bug. Ah, closed source drivers. The x1300 was my bane for almost a year. With 8.34.8, ATI finally has some reasonably stable drivers.
Very late in the Feisty development cycle, I actually found NetworkManager/udev working properly for the first time with the on-board Intel 3945 wifi.
While Edgy had a few nice features over Dapper, Feisty is absolutely worth the upgrade for laptop users.
As for battery life, my T60 dual-boots Vista. I can get about 2:45 in either Windows or Linux. I might get ten more minutes in Windows. Though this seems to have more to do with Vista being harder on the battery than XP was.
Anyway, Feisty was the first time in a long time for me that I thought a new Linux laptop might be an option. (Mow that ACPI support is getting a bit better, it must be just about time for ACPI2.)
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