linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New features in 11.04

Hello Ian, Roy..... (just saying hi, still a new-ish member) I have a
sort of "reading room" forum that I continually post stuff to like a
squirrel hut. Indeed I had posted a good handful of in-the-news- items
about Ubuntu 11.04 .

I have been following Ubuntu for several years back to about the time
they came out with Wubi as a "prototype" - not as some beta or
something. I got that to run okay. Well things lead to Ubuntu being
about the first, if not actually the first, to come out with the Netbook
Edition for Linux - Ubuntu Linux. This was the Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS
Netbook Edition and it worked like a charm on an EEE PC 900 Netbook I
have. (Only 12 Gig solid state drive ! )

Okay so said all that to say this. The Ubuntu 11.04 is the first release
(and all after) now that has consolidated the download / install as an
all-in-one download. There will no longer be a separate Netbook Edition.
Installing 11.04 (and after) to a netbook will be automatically detected
to install the correct optimized version for netbooks. Immediately below
is an news article about this. As well it has been posted around by
Ubuntu (maybe Canonical too) somewhere - most likely at their sites,
forums, and blogs. (I didn't have those links). Below that article are a
good handful of articles to check out for this new release, although now
not the latest.
BTW by the way I am running Ubuntu 11.04 myself for months now after
upgrading from 10.10. I really like it. Navigation is so fast with
simply the hover over / hide navigation of desktop links, bar. Very
sleek and fast.

((( I can not find Klam antivirus for download which was available in
previous versions in the Software Repository (Ubuntu Software). Clam
antivirus is available. Klam works on KDE I believe but has a heck of
interface with in house malware library and other features Clam does
not. )))

Ubuntu 11.04 will be Optimized for All Platforms
Techtree.com
Installing Ubuntu Linux on a netbook entailed a search for the latest
version of the specially optimized netbook editions. This will be a
thing of the past as Ubuntu is doing away with different optimizations
of the base Ubuntu version. ...
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Ubtunu_1104_will_be_Optimised_for_All_Platforms/551-114764-580.html

Ubuntu 11.04 - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
ZDNet UK (blog)
By JA Watson , 30 April, 2011 08:22 Various thoughts and adventures,
including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and
old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7. I've just been reading the
comments to my previous post, ...
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/ubuntu-1104-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-10022334/

Ubuntu 11.04 Adds OpenStack to Linux
InternetNews.com
By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: The Ubuntu 11.04
Linux release is due out next week and with it will debut a new open
source cloud platform.
The Ubuntu 'Natty' release will include OpenStack, which is an open
source effort that ...
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3931556/Ubuntu+1104+Adds+OpenStack+to+Linux.htm

New Nvidia Linux Driver Supports Ubuntu 11.04 - Softpedia
The driver will indeed support other linux distros as it always has.
It supports the X.org version that Ubuntu uses and that is what the
author of the ...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Nvidia-Linux-Driver-Supports-Ubuntu-11-04-196264.shtml

Ubuntu 11.04 - Notes, Tips and Warnings
ZDNet UK (blog)
By JA Watson , 29 April, 2011 10:30 Various thoughts and adventures,
including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and
old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7. As anyone who has any interest
in Linux at all knows (and most of those ...
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/ubuntu-1104-notes-tips-and-warnings-10022328/

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On 10/25/2011 08:23 AM, Ian wrote:
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> Roy while I may not use them all I and perhaps other would like to know
> what some of the more useful features in 11.04 do and where to find them.
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> --
> Ian
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