performance review of ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx

hello friends,
Ubuntu launched its Final release of lucid lynx 10.04 just 2 days before and I couldn't stop trying it as soon as I could.Reason is not that I was waiting eagerly for its final release.Real reason is that I had done some mistake in hard disk partition while installing slackware which caused me loss of linuxmint which I was using for a very long time.So, finally I thought to try fresh and final release of 10.04.
oh boy,What an OS.Surprisingly it can be called as the perfect OS.Lookwise,it has got better.Also,the most exciting feature is its boot time.Amazing boot time must have impressed everyone.Shutdown time is also faster.This has got attention of some people who are claiming that skipping disk check can also reduce boot time.Anyway,I don't want to create any controversy here.
Talking about look,It gives a sight of mac.The minimize, maximize and close buttons of window is on the left side which gives you feeling of working on mac.Anyway that feature was available previously also but not as default(a package "mac4lin" changes the look in that manner).New Gwibber social client is also very exciting.Gwibber can be configured to broadcast status on facebook,twitter etc. and to see other's status.
Recently "ubuntu tweak" became my latest crush as It has got nice and sexy packages which synaptic package manager didn't let me try directly.visit ubuntu-tweak.com for more info about tweak.As I am in a university which does not provide with a superfast internet connection but allows downloading packages with apt-cacher,I couldn't stop downloading all the packages which caught my attention.Well,It's definitely wastage of resource.
In final words,ubuntu 10.04 is just lovable and awesome and great experience so far.Don't know how soon the bugs will come out.Till then,enjoy lucid lynx.Happy open source.

CLI over GUI

hello folks,
I am learning a bit linux nowadays.so, I thought it would be better to write something related to that.Don't worry , i will not teach you commands here(there are so many sources for that). I was thinking that CLI(command line interface) seems to be boring and cumbersome to use and I know so many people would say the same.Most of us are used to of windows' GUI(graphical user interface).Around 5 months ago my friend bought a laptop and got windows vista as default OS by that company.When i asked him to use linux,he said that as he had been using windows since childhood,he was more comfortable with that.Now i think that how can you compare two things without knowing both. If you also admire GUI then this is for you.CLI has really got some advantages over GUI.lets get it one by one

• with a GUI, only the options provided by the interface are available to the user


• lack of space on a screen can limit the number of options that a GUI displays


• no standard methods exist within GUIs for performing standard command-line tasks, such as linking commands in sequences, redirecting output from one destination to another, or collecting commands into scripts

Shell keeps history of recent commands.its very useful.and, if you have to perform certain operations in sequence then you can create shell scripts also.shell script is just like batch files in windows.

there is one more thing that i have recently come to know.shell is more useful in hardware terms.Shells are much less resources-intensive than GUI's.shell requires less memory.It means that command issued in shell will run more quickly than in GUI.

Only thing that i feel difficult is to remember commands.well,once you get used to it,its much easier than you think.
That's it for today.hope,you got something useful.