manmath
Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:52:32 am
That uummm... (loving kiss) is to the Zorin Team for bringing me a great 5.2 core release. Here is a brief testimony vis-a-vis my previous experience.
Past:
I've been using Linux for last 8 years. I've used RH, Mandy, *buntu, Arch, Debian and a couple other flavors mainly on all-intel desktops.
Problematic Present:
Couple of months ago I brought this Asus Eee PC 1215B, and the problems started merging. First I tried my good old debian squeeze. It was a fight with hotkeys (they did not work no matter what i did). Moved to PCLinuxOS 2011, Mandriva 11, Fedora 16, Chakra and Arch. There were more then one problem with each one - starting from graphics, to sleep/suspend, hotkeys, wifi/bth, etc. One one end, while Arch, Chakra and Debian were blazingly fast, hotkeys and graphics support was poor. On the other hand, Fedora 16 was too buggy. PCLinuxOS was somewhat better, but the system felt heavier.
Good times with Zorin:
Poor me, I did not tried Zorin earlier. Because, I thought Zorin is yet another Ubuntu. Oh boy, I was wrong. And thanks for proving me wrong. Out of despair I tried Zorin 5.2. To my surprise, it readily detected and configured every piece of hardware (including hotkeys) and seemed pretty fast compared to the number of packages and customization it adds on top of stock Ubuntu. Another good thing is it does power management better (i am unaware of the reasons though). The ondemand daemon setting works good.
A few minor problems:
1. First liveusb was not booting, it used to get stuck. After I put i8042.nopnp at the end of grub.cfg kernel line, the liveusb booted pretty well.
2. I pulled in fglrx drivers for my radeon hd 6250 card successfully, but xvba-va-drivers could not be installed from the preconfigured zorin/ubuntu repo. It was showing broken. No problem - I pulled the latest xvba-va-driver from oneieric repo. And that installed pretty well. Now the 2d/3d acceleration is superb.
Uummm Zorin Team. I am sure you will soon zoom into the linux centrestage.
Thanks and best wishes for the dev team and other members.
Past:
I've been using Linux for last 8 years. I've used RH, Mandy, *buntu, Arch, Debian and a couple other flavors mainly on all-intel desktops.
Problematic Present:
Couple of months ago I brought this Asus Eee PC 1215B, and the problems started merging. First I tried my good old debian squeeze. It was a fight with hotkeys (they did not work no matter what i did). Moved to PCLinuxOS 2011, Mandriva 11, Fedora 16, Chakra and Arch. There were more then one problem with each one - starting from graphics, to sleep/suspend, hotkeys, wifi/bth, etc. One one end, while Arch, Chakra and Debian were blazingly fast, hotkeys and graphics support was poor. On the other hand, Fedora 16 was too buggy. PCLinuxOS was somewhat better, but the system felt heavier.
Good times with Zorin:
Poor me, I did not tried Zorin earlier. Because, I thought Zorin is yet another Ubuntu. Oh boy, I was wrong. And thanks for proving me wrong. Out of despair I tried Zorin 5.2. To my surprise, it readily detected and configured every piece of hardware (including hotkeys) and seemed pretty fast compared to the number of packages and customization it adds on top of stock Ubuntu. Another good thing is it does power management better (i am unaware of the reasons though). The ondemand daemon setting works good.
A few minor problems:
1. First liveusb was not booting, it used to get stuck. After I put i8042.nopnp at the end of grub.cfg kernel line, the liveusb booted pretty well.
2. I pulled in fglrx drivers for my radeon hd 6250 card successfully, but xvba-va-drivers could not be installed from the preconfigured zorin/ubuntu repo. It was showing broken. No problem - I pulled the latest xvba-va-driver from oneieric repo. And that installed pretty well. Now the 2d/3d acceleration is superb.
Uummm Zorin Team. I am sure you will soon zoom into the linux centrestage.
Thanks and best wishes for the dev team and other members.
. By the time it comes out, Gnome.Org should have got rid of the bugs!!.)