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Test Drive: Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” Beta on the Sempron 2400

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Since I heard that the new Ubuntu release would be based only on Gnome3 and Unity (the older release was a plain Gnome 2 version on “non-3D-capable” computers) I wondered how it would perform on older computers. So the second step of my “Test Drive”s has been to test Ubuntu 11.10 on my “still-alive” five years old Sempron 2400.

 

Boot _ errors _ and boot again

 

Ubuntu 11.10 beta is definitively a buggy beta, I already realized this while testing on the EEEPC but on the Sempron 2400 it looks even more buggy. I had to restart the boot process three times before arriving to Unity 2D main screen.

apart from these boot errors and some error message now and then, that also appeared on the EEEPC, the system did run smoothly enough.

 
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