We got a couple of new emachines D644 in our office. As I previously blogged before, it uses AMD E-350 Zacate. Installing Ubuntu 10.10 is a hit or miss with this one. I've also tried Alpha versions of Natty Narwhal before but I get installation crashes all too often. There was also no out-of-the-box support for the ethernet and wireless access.
Fortunately, with the Beta 1 just released a couple of days ago, installation of Natty now runs perfectly. Also, it's the first time I actually got to see Unity in action. While it's a little bit on the slow side, (I only used the open source AMD graphics driver...) it's workable.
I just have a couple of minor gripes. I haven't managed to find a way to put a wine program shortcut in the dash. And the keyboard shortcut Super-S which used to launch the shutdown/switch-user menu on the upper right now activates Expo. Expo previously used Super-E as a shortcut, so I don't know why they would change these two default shortcut keys since 10.04. Now I don't know how to activate the shutdown/switch-user menu any more. It seems an inconsistent change without any advantage.
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