Ubuntu 9.04 on my 8.04 laptop: Intel video issues sink upgrade

As much as I’ve railed against quickie distro reviews, I find myself trying a new version of Ubuntu in live CD form and writing just such a piece. I apologize in advance for not running Ubuntu 9.04 longer, but in this evaluation, which has everything to do with the hardware I’m using, I’ll explain why this is a wham-bam distro evaluation:

I’ve been sticking with Ubuntu 8.04 — the LTS version of the distro — on my main Toshiba 1100-S101 laptop for a number of reasons. For one thing, just about everything works (with exceptions being suspend/resume and some rare-but-troublesome crashes when running a USB Wifi stick), and as a production machine, I need it to continue to work.

And both of my identical Toshiba laptops have extremely flaky CD/DVD-ROM drives that don’t like most CD-R discs. I managed to burn a Ubuntu 8.04 CD that did boot and install the OS to get me started on this laptop. Since then, I’ve discovered that commercially produced CD-ROM discs always boot fine. So does DVD+R media; I managed to burn a huge Debian Lenny DVD+R that I’ve used to set up the other Toshiba.

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