Feisty Fawn with that Gutsy Gibbon
By Serge Norguard. Filed in Personal |
Ubuntu users will know that the Feisty Fawn refers to version 7.04 while the Gutsy Gibbon is 7.10. Both of which is free to download and to be distributed. Yes distributed, even on the package it says that we are to copy and give it away. Cool stuff really and Serge has been using Ubuntu for about a year now.
He started off with 6.06 which if he did remember, was called Dapper Drake. Now he is using 7.10 the Gutsy Gibbon which has only one single issue. That issue was caused by something known as the system requirements. On previous versions of Ubuntu, the need of RAM was not that necessary. 7.04 required 256Mb while 7.10 required 384Mb. Situational circumstance has placed this RAM requirement a blow to Serge and his UltraSoul-II.
UltraSoul-II is this beautiful, black sleek and gorgeous laptop from IBM of the ThinkPad series number T42s. She comes with 512Mb of RAM, yet due to graphic card sharing the real amount is 506. This does not bode well for Serge and his quest to use 7.10. For he believes that when something says System Requirement, especially on RAM, one should at least have double of it. How bad is it ? How bad is it not having some what substantial amount of RAM ?
It is so bad that it takes Serge about 3-5 minutes to start up the UltraSoul-II. But when he was on Feisty Fawn or Dapper Drake, 1-2 minutes and that includes all the added accessories and blings! Tsk. Tsk. Definitely need RAM for the UltraSoul-II. Gotto to increase her bust size or she will not perform at all.
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Wednesday, November 7th 2007 at 9:00 pm
I know what you mean about not having enough RAM! My laptop only has 512MB too, and it is rubbish trying to run development for Blog Friends under it - I can run either gedit for editing the source code, or firefox for testing the edits worked, but not both! Still, I now have 6GB of RAM in my development server (I need it for running everything!) and it *flies* under Gutsy. Soooo fast, and all the pretty visual effects to boot. Awesome!
By the way, I found your post via the Facebook application Blog Friends (I am the CTO of i-together Ltd, the company behind it, and am its chief programmer).
Benjie.
Wednesday, November 7th 2007 at 10:07 pm
I know what you mean. Well for me, Ubuntu is kinda like my sandbox to the world of linux. I’m irritated by the fact that it takes such a long time to load. Just now from a cold start to the login page to the whole system up, it took 5 minutes. Not good.
Well nice to meet you Benjie.