Ugh.. My g/f was playing a very long mission in Starcraft on my computer, and it decided to lock up on her (Ubuntu Unity). This is incredibly, incredibly vexing. The display is locking up about once or twice a day, I'm finding that the processor is running hot, and I'm genuinely displeased with the performance of this OS.

I know that I may have a unique case, but I can't help but be severely dissappointed with Ubuntu 11.04.

Back in the day of Moblin, and when N900 was the hands-down best device I made a UX for a Linux OS (Moblin/Maemo/Ubuntu). This was during the iPad rumour/announcement and just before the Nexus One, and at its time I think it was quite a sophisticated UX.

Would you guys be interested in seeing it?
(I'd need to upload it to imgshack or somewhere)

Designed a UI?

If it's a trade secret, keep it private! Only share it if you're comfortable with losing control of it.

I had spent considerable time making it a UX for internet tablets (>5") which is finger-friendly but also easily adaptable for mouse input.

I was involved with a small internet group and we were actually making this on KDE and was going to release it to the repositories, but the group sort of separated (marrige, university, not replying etc etc). Planned on fusing "clean looks", "quick uses" to UNR. So anyone interested should pick this project up, its open.

I'm in the process of uploading them now to imgshak.

seems to me like "sync to vBlank" issue.
Go to CCSM and under open GL disable sync to vBlank. That solved my problems with screen freezing.

Thank you so much! I'll try this right away, and fingers crossed, it does what I'm looking for.

EDIT: For those that want to do something similar, and understand the risks, install CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager) in 11.04 with this command at the terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Then run the CCSM:

$ ccsm

This can now also be found in the System Settings manager (System Settings -> Personal -> CompizConfig Settisn Manager)

NOTE: the '$' represent the command line prompt, but if you don't know this, then you probably shouldn't be fooling around with these settings

There are other neat settings for graphical effects, so you may wish to play around.

Well, messing around with compiz always break my system. Turning off sync to vBlank is OK but a lot of other options I tried doesn't work so I'm running default compiz configuration. But it still far more usable then unity.

Yes!

Ubuntu can natively boot off Android devices. Here is a new project on the Desire HD. Now just imagine the ASUS Transformer xD
http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...untu-natively/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1045910

And here is a video demonstration with a newer/better optimized build for the HTC HD2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPu6...mbedded#at=256

NOW thats what im talking about, this is the only thing that i can consider an upgrade from my beloved N900, i like the HD2 because of the big screen but i would like to do this on the N900, since it is better in any other way, better with qwerty, better sound from native speakers then any other device i have seen/heard to date + alot of other things


Now i really like maemo, it is really great, but i would like a device like my N900 to have a full ubuntu on it, this will for me be the last step to a truly great device, this and if it was x86 so i could use "normal" ubuntu and wine to play "old" pc games , would be so awesome to play insane

@dr_frost there are easy to follow howtos to boot Ubuntu off n900 microsd