Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty, and I’m suffering (again!) sound problems with Pulseaudio. This is frustraing, at best, because I needed some time to research and fix the same problem with Intrepid (previous release).
Now seems the fix I used for Intrepid (tweaking damon.conf file to have my laptop play music without annoying noises) isn’t working with Jaunty, so I must start researching again (or don’t listen to music… or uninstall the damn Pulseaudio thing).
I’ve used Pulseaudio features since it worked 100%, I like the idea behind it, but I think it’s a very big issue that Ubuntu fails on sound every release because of this.
Dear Ubuntu fellas: please, don’t make it default until it works out of the box on most hardware out there.
I have important things to do right now, but I’m tired and I should go to bed, so it’s a good moment to post about the little install party of this weekend :).
After some time with Foresight Linux Mobile Edition in my Acer Aspire One, I decided to take a look at other Linux distributions.
At first, FLM was a very good choice, but after some time there are other distributions with an eye on netbooks. Moreover FLM has some little annoyances (such as little support, slow bug fixing, and packagekit ignoring my commands: don’t install updates, damn it!), so I tried other options:
Fedora 11 Beta: but its beta tag was too much. First the installer fails if you don’t use ext4 for the root partition, and the second stage simply halts and the installation can’t be finished. It’s a pity because it looks gorgeous :(.
Ubuntu MID: it’s ugly, and that’s probably because it’s designed for mobile devices and my Aspire One isn’t one of them. Moreover the install fails after asking for the language for the installation.
I’m very pleased with the interface (Foresight Linux Mobile uses the same desktop, and I liked the experience), after the first aptitude update all works like a charm, and there are only minor glitches that I think it’ll be fixed with the final release coming soon.
I believe that Ubuntu Netbook Remix is the killer distro for netbooks.
PS: note that the installation problems may be because I was trying beta releases, or because the special hardware of the Acer Aspire One.
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