I am no longer using Ubuntu as my linux distribution.
With the new release, Natty Narwhal, as usual I have tried to update my laptop to a new Ubuntu release, and upgrade failed miserably. After couple of hours of downloading it said that it couldn’t find “ubuntu-minimal” package which I know was there. Never mind, with Ubuntu that’s normal. I have never relied on upgrade in Ubuntu — fresh reinstall is the way to go. I have always had my hard-drive partitioned and separate home partition makes every reinstall so much easier, format every other partition but leave home partition alone.
Decided to download CD for installation, downloaded ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu tried all three. Ubuntu said that my hardware is no longer enough for it to work properly and did this after installation. So on my laptop which is dual core 64bit intel with 2G of RAM I can no longer run ubuntu, fine. I hate unity interface anyway, I think it’s so bad that it can drive normal people away from linux use.
So I had to try kubuntu, xubuntu, no dice, and on both it says “this driver is activated but not in use” or something like that, the same as ubuntu so no eye candy for me. By this time I have had enough of this ubuntu nonsense, even before I was not a happy user, because of outdated software, bugs which are not fixed for years, ever growing complexity of configuration because of the GUI abstraction. My thoughts on this are: leave those windows users alone ubuntu, let them use what they prefer, and try to see what linux user wants, like easy configuration and simplicity.
So distributionless, I searched for something to replace ubuntu on my laptop. Found a Chakra Project which is an ArchLinux based linux distribution.
From the Chakra Project website:
The Chakra Project brings a ground-up Linux distribution, a free software showcase project created by a bunch of people who like the KISS principles of ArchLinux the elegance of KDE and a bundlesystem to support well known Gtk applications.
After install I have found out that it uses different (from arch) repositories, but still has a lot of software. I will stick to it for now, see how it goes and use it as my main linux distribution for all my computing needs. If not then I know what to do, there is an ArchLinux and I just found after installation of Chakra new distro by founder of Gentoo, Daniel Robbins, Funtoo so there are a lot to choose from.
Though, this doesn’t look right to me, maybe kde is to heavy weight for me?
top - 10:15:26 up 1:39, 2 users, load average: 2.75, 2.34, 1.40
Tasks: 145 total, 1 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 3.3%us, 12.7%sy, 37.5%ni, 12.0%id, 33.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 4.1%us, 9.8%sy, 45.1%ni, 25.1%id, 15.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2056224k total, 2034376k used, 21848k free, 29284k buffers
Swap: 1048572k total, 12760k used, 1035812k free, 961648k cached
On a first day of using Chakra it seems that my laptop struggles a bit, I will try to uninstall what I don’t really use and see how it works. I will be back.
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