Store performanceforbedringer i 11.04

Opgraderinger til en række programmer i Ubuntu 11.04 vil betyde store forbedringer i performance.

Har man haft Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition installeret, ved man hvor tung Unity (netbook interfacet) kan være, og hvor særlig slemt det er på små computere.

Men det skal man ikke frygte i Ubuntu 11.04, hvor Unity bliver standardinterface. Kraftige forbedringer på nogle af de væsentligste områder, vil nemlig give et stort løft til den generelle performance:

Husk du kan læse mere om nyheder i Ubuntu 11.04 her, som jeg opdaterer løbende frem til udgivelsen

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Handing out Ubuntu CDs

Better late than never, this Saturday Ubuntu Denmark finally got around to hand out Ubuntu 10.10 CDs in a mall in Aarhus.

It’s been more than a year since we did it the last time, and the LoCo team had undergone some fundamentally changes in the meantime, and has been quite inactive. So the event was of great importance – not only to the spread of Ubuntu, but to the local community in general as well.

The day was quite a success. We handed out about 120-130 CD’s which we’ve received from Canonical in the 6 hours we were there, and, just as importantly, showed the Ubuntu name and brand to thousands of people. I also think we “recruited” a lot of people to attend our bi-monthly Ubuntu meetups, where people can get technical help, listen to presentations and contributing to Ubuntu.

But what I think was an even greater success story, was the fact that about 15 people from the community turned up, and at least half of those was “new” community members, who never before have contributed to the community! A lot of old community members, who in the pas has been very active, are not so active any more, and it’s vital that new members take over.

This event shows that not only are there new members who wants to contribute, but also that we will end up with even more active contributors!

We have already evaluated it and what we want to improve, and we will repeat the event in May – hopefully other cities in Denmark will do the same

A special thank you to Carsten, who coordinated much of the event, Troels who built the booth you see in the above picture, Britta and Anders who came all the way from Copenhagen to participate, Henning and Poul who took the journey from Southern Jutland to Aarhus, and of course all the rest of you who were there

See more pictures here (Carsten Aggers blog)

Ubuntu 10.10: Få en øl eller sodavand

Ja, på søndag er det jo releasedag, og den nye Ubuntu 10.10 skal selvfølgelig fejres på denne for nørder særligt specielle dag.

I år laves der ikke en større markering for releaset, men til gengæld mødes vi over en hyggeøl- eller sodavand i både København og Århus.

Så kom forbi kl. 16 på søndag. Det foregår:

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Ubuntu 10.10 nedtællingen er begyndt

Der er godt 3 uger til den næste Ubuntu version, med versionsnummeret Ubuntu 10.10. Nedtællingen er begyndt, og traditionen tro, er der lavet et nedtællingsbanner, man kan sætte på sit website, blog, forumsignatur eller andre steder.

Spred ordet om Ubuntu og indsæt et nedtællingsbanner hvor du kan:

Vælg et banner og få koden her.

Unity in action

Jeg har tidligere skrevet om det nye interface (shell) i Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition kaldet Unity, og her kunne man også se screenshots af det.

Men der er også lavet en video, som demonstrerer Unity, hvor du kan få et nærmere kig på Unity in action:

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