• Tagged GPG, launchpad, ppa, synaptic

I have installed Debian Squeeze Testing replacing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and miss some applications only available via Launchpad PPAs. Not that they can’t be compiled from their sources or installed by downloading debs, but it would be great if updates were available from update manager like in Ubuntu. So I decided to add some [...]

• Tagged 2.6.35, 2.6.36, choppy, jerky, Kernel, laggy, mainline, slow, synaptic

A lot of Ubuntu 10.10 users have been complaining about Maverick being too slow, typing becoming laggy and video performance being choppy.   Here are few things you can try to make it fast again. These have been collected from the user experience discussed in this post in Ubuntu forums.

• Tagged compiz, mutter, unity, zeitgeist

Mark Shuttleworth, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit held on October 25th 2010, has announced that the next version of Ubuntu i.e. Natty Narwhal, which is scheduled to be released in April 2011, will feature Unity Shell as the default interface. The Unity Shell was introduced in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Netbook Edition.

• Tagged 2.6.36, btrfs, slow installation, slow upgrade

UPDATE: I installed a modified version of dpkg which makes it pretty much faster. Brian Rogers posted the patched dpkg ppa in the bug page. The patched dpkg can be installed by executing the following commands:

• Tagged 11.04, natty, natty narwhal

Mark Shuttleworth mentioned in his blog that the new Ubuntu after Maverick Meerkat 10.10 will be named Natty Narwhal.