upgrade from Hardy to Jaunty: what a difference on my dell M2300!
RT @thibauld upgrade from Hardy to Jaunty: what a difference on my dell M2300!Last week I upgraded (actually dist-upgraded) my laptop from Hardy Heron (ubuntu 8.04) to Jaunty Jackalope (ubuntu 9.04) and all I can say is "Wow" (TM).
I used to blame my laptop for its poor performance but this upgrade made me realize that the problem was coming from Ubuntu Hardy... hmm.. too bad for a LTS (Long Term Support) distribution... My laptop was heating so much that he used to freeze if not elevated 1 or 2 cm above the table! I'm not even talking about battery life...
I tried everything, included BIOS upgrade but nothing solved the problem. Also I had a lot of problem with flash on my firefox, it used to make firefox eat 100% cpu after a while. I was tired of this situation that I even got my old laptop (the best laptop ever) back to life and I was planning to use it as my day-to-day laptop again.
An upgrade to jaunty later (and 1.5Go new packages installed), I can finally feel the power of my Core 2 duo T8300 (2.4Ghz) with 4Go RAM! Even with the most impressive 3D options activated, it still flies and battery life has returned to an "acceptable" level (a little bit above 3h). I can now test some cool 3D games (did you try armagetron?) which were forbidden to me on my old system.
Once the upgrade completed, I was curious about which new applications got included in the ubuntu 9.04 repository (compared to the 8.10 repository) so we put a dedicated page on allmyapps . If you're interested, you can browse the list of the new applications included in ubuntu 9.04 here.
By the way, the dist-upgrade process always amazes me! It so impressive watching an entire system updating itself without a glitch (ok I had to use 2 dpkg -i --force-overwrite but still... ). So congratulations to the developers!