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A Tale of Two Upgrades: Ubuntu 11.10 vs. CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha on HP TouchPad
Posted October 17, 2011 – 10:39 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in WebsiteIn the last week or so I ended up upgrading my main PC from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 and hacking 32GB HP TouchPad with the newly released CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha (aka Android 2.3). I must say that the Alpha, unsupported, potentially lethal, etc. CM7 hack for the TouchPad runs smoother than my PC. Either this is great work on the CM team’s part or really bad and shoddy work on Canonical/Ubuntu team.
Some notes on CM7:
- CM7 installation instructions fail to mention that a separate file containing Google’s stock apps such as gMail, Market, etc. is available.
- I followed the instructions provided and it took about 5 mins for the whole process to run.
- Other than an occasional Market crash, I haven’t see any problems. It runs faster and better than the WebOS software. I also like the dual boot functionality.
About that Ubuntu upgrade:
- Unity 3D, the new interface in Ubuntu, just does not work with my machine. I can only use the 2D version or classic Gnome. The bug reports, help forums, etc. provide very little useful information.
- The UI is such drastic departure from the classic desktop that it is going to take some time to get used to.
- As usual, the default kernel in GRUB is the PAE kernel, which consistently has been crashing my machines since Ubuntu 9. I had to manually switch to the non-PAE kernel.
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