03-05-2019, 01:38 AM
Test results for 4.4 RC1. Used dd to write to a usb stick. Live boot was quite long, almost 2 minutes. Everything worked running live, so I proceeded with the first of two installs.
I had a testing desktop system running LL 4.2 using a separate home partition. Using “Something else” I installed 4.4 on two existing partitions, formatting root and not formatting home. Grub was installed to sda. This was a dual boot install with Debian testing running Plasma. Install was fine with my settings and home data retained as expected. Grub looked good. After about an hour of testing, everything I tried looked good.
Second install was to the same two partitions, with both getting formatted for a clean install.
Ran updates, completed some basic setting adjustments and rebooted. Start up was 36 seconds.
Very happy with the default look but made a bunch of changes to play with the settings and all worked well. Installed some apps from Synaptic and Lite Software. No problems. Installed Etcher from direct download. No problem.
Transferred a bunch of files of various types form a data usb stick. All went quickly and the files opened with expected default programs.
For the past three days, I’ve set 4.4 up as I would my production system, used it for several hours and all is working flawlessly. I’ll work it some more but as far as I’m concerned it’s ready to go.
The test system is a home build desktop with an AMD A10-5800K, 8GB RAM, a hybrid hdd, and uses Ethernet for Internet connection. Test printer is an HP Officejet All-in-one.
Nice work Jerry! 4.4 will be a very good release!
I had a testing desktop system running LL 4.2 using a separate home partition. Using “Something else” I installed 4.4 on two existing partitions, formatting root and not formatting home. Grub was installed to sda. This was a dual boot install with Debian testing running Plasma. Install was fine with my settings and home data retained as expected. Grub looked good. After about an hour of testing, everything I tried looked good.
Second install was to the same two partitions, with both getting formatted for a clean install.
Ran updates, completed some basic setting adjustments and rebooted. Start up was 36 seconds.
Very happy with the default look but made a bunch of changes to play with the settings and all worked well. Installed some apps from Synaptic and Lite Software. No problems. Installed Etcher from direct download. No problem.
Transferred a bunch of files of various types form a data usb stick. All went quickly and the files opened with expected default programs.
For the past three days, I’ve set 4.4 up as I would my production system, used it for several hours and all is working flawlessly. I’ll work it some more but as far as I’m concerned it’s ready to go.
The test system is a home build desktop with an AMD A10-5800K, 8GB RAM, a hybrid hdd, and uses Ethernet for Internet connection. Test printer is an HP Officejet All-in-one.
Nice work Jerry! 4.4 will be a very good release!