For those reading about Ubuntu and wondering what the LTS suffix means - it simply stands for Long Term Support. Normally the desktop release is supported for 18 months, but with LTS, Canonical provides three years support on the desktop, and five years on the server.
It boots quite quickly. On my laptop (Toshiba L355D - AMD Turion(tm) X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-72, 4GB memory) after GRUB it loads in 10 seconds. It's even faster closing down.
I found a problem with my windows losing the top bar - so no minimise/maximise and close buttons. I have fixed this by adding "metacity --replace" as a startup application - System > Preferences > Startup Applications
For some reason, the Ubuntu team decided to move the minimise, maximise and close buttons to the left hand side of the top window bar. You can move it back to the right hand side by doing the following:
- Open the Configuration Editor (Applications > System Tools > Configuration Editor
- Click on "apps", then "metacity", then "general"
- Locate the item "button_layout" click on the data field to the right, delete the contents and replace it with "menu:minimize,maximize,space,close"
There's a few new apps added in, but I haven't played with them yet. OpenOffice 3.2 is there and works well. A few of the standard games have either gone - or had their name changed...
Once I get a bit more time with the new bits, I'll add some more comments.
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