tiny changes in jaunty
Monday, 27 April 2009 5:14 pm by noelposted in tech | tags: computer, grsync, linux, open source, opera, rsync, skype, ubuntu
i noticed a couple of things that changed when i ugraded to ubuntu 9.04
- the menu entry of grsync was moved from applications – internet to applications – system tools
- opera disappeared. i don’t exactly know how but the .opera subdiretory with my previous settings was still there. i just had to download the latest .deb package directly from the opera website. it wasn’t in the add/remove applications program and there’s one dubious looking entry in synaptic so i decided to do a direct download.
- skype disappeared too (there’s a pattern here). so i had to download the .deb package directly from skype. because of the relative newness of ubuntu 9.04, the available versions are for ubuntu 8.10 but these should work as before.
- after ugrading to firefox 3.0.9 flash videos became choppy. i remember uninstalling the flash plugins–all of them–via synaptic. then downloading and installing the latest .deb from the adobe website. i also noticed that firefox’s memory footprint became quite a bit larger–a little over 500 megabytes in my case–especially after spending a good amount of time in javscript and ajax-heavy sites i.e. facebook.
- the booting, shutdown and login screens are new.
- when shutting down the computer there’s a new confirmation dialog box with a 60-second countdown timer confirming if you really want to shutdown or not. this also applies when you want to restart the computer.
- booting seems faster–around 20 seconds on one workstation.
- there’s a new theme called new wave which i switched to.
i’m just wondering how it performs with older computers (pentium 4, 256 meg ram). if you know, please leave a note.
