I installed a second machine the other day with Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” Tribe (alpha) 4 release. Based on my initial positive experience on my other machine I thought I’d give it a try. Well, so far so good–things are running great. I love having new features. I think I may just consider running perpetual alpha from now on. Nothing like bleeding edge ehh?
I thought I’d share a screenshot of something I was presented with when I booted this machine this morning. I should mention this machine is probably 3-4 years old at this point and I’m sure Gutsy is absolutely correct in its message. I just thought it was pretty cool that it could tell and would notify me. I’ll let the screenshot do the talking…
If you did stick with it, you wouldn’t be entirely alone. I have a beta release of Breezy on one PC still.
Thats cool. Always handy to see what the next version of ubuntu comes up with.
But I wonder how it calculates it. Does it depend on charging time or that it will never reach 100% maybe?
Mine did that as well, and then promptly shut down, even if unplugged for a secong. This was on once of the previous tribes, so it may have been fixed now. Under windows I get about 30 minutes. I must stop being such a cheapskate and splash out 50 quid on a new battery.
and here I thought this was a Gnome feature as it does this one every single gnome desktop I’ve used. How bout that. Glad you threw down the gauntlet by saying it’s an Ubuntu feature.
You just about have me convinced to install now and not wait for the release. A question: If I install now, will Synaptic move me all the way to the release version through updates?
@Henrik:
The battery is probably able to tell something about its current condition. For example on this laptop
$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
says:
design capacity: 38880 mWh
last full capacity: 16030 mWh
which basically means that the battery is not that good anymore.
Nice. I challenge that niceness with my this:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_13ck267r
🙂
The solution is described at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/16386
🙂
Erin – thanks for the links there. I’d say your message trumps mine, but at least my machine is going to continue working 🙂
Lane – continuing to do the upgrades until the final release should put you at the same final product, yes. This is what I have been doing since the days of Dapper if I remember correctly. I can never wait for the final so I’m usually running the alpha by the 2-3rd release. Some may argue that you’ll get a cleaner final product if you re-install with the final release CD, but they should be pretty much the same in the end.
It wasn’t for real :p
Unfortunately smartmontools’ automatic disk detection is extremely broken, and at this moment getting smartd running reliably without user having to configure it is impossible…