Intrepid Ibex vs Hardy Heron

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Weird! Look at these 2 screenshots. The first one is my Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex system monitor screenshot and the second one is my Hardy Heron system monitor screenshot. Take a look at the RAM usage (Memory and Swap Usage). It looks like Hardy Heron sucking much more memory resource compared than Intrepid Ibex, but in the actual condition, Hardy Heron is so much faster than Intrepid.

First, I think this is a bug then I should wait for updates, a month later, the slow performance still there. So, several days ago I decided to downgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Maybe I should wait for Ubuntu 9.04 with release codename Jaunty Jackalope. Any comment or suggestion?

November 26, 2008 · Filed under Linux

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11 Comments »

  1. Jean-SImon Said,

    January 8, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

    I had the same problem. Intrepid Ibex was soo slow that I was not able to scroll a single web page … And I don’t have an old computer and my super PC should outperform. With Hardy, no more problems ,,,

  2. Lilian Coolie Said,

    January 23, 2009 @ 8:11 am

    Well, here at the School District we are using 8.10 and they seem to perform far better than 8.04 and most of our computers are around 600-900 MHz with 392MB-1GB of RAM and they are all running Ubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

  3. Chaanakya Said,

    January 28, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

    I had Intrepid for 3 months. By then, I was sick of of the fact that the devs still hadn’t fixed the Bluetooth problem and I went back to Hardy. I haven’t had any significant problems after I switched.

  4. Joshua Klar Said,

    February 18, 2009 @ 8:02 pm

    I too went back to Hardy for stability and the fact that it is LTS. Also, I use static IP, with which Intrepid has several problems. Hardy? No bigee there.

  5. atul Said,

    March 4, 2009 @ 1:40 pm

    honest guys Intrepid is sucks..i moved back to hardy

  6. pixelatedZEN Said,

    March 19, 2009 @ 12:38 pm

    Downgraded both my desktop and laptop (eeepc 701) to hardy from intrepid/jaunty.

    I would love to use the new features such as tabbed nautilus, etc. , but I need a FAST AND STABLE system, not just one (or neither.)

    But honestly, any Ubuntu is better than no Ubuntu.

  7. Budi Said,

    March 20, 2009 @ 8:10 pm

    I feel the same..
    First, I think it’s because my b0x that’s to0 weak. >,

  8. Budi Said,

    March 20, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

    I feel the same..
    First, I think it’s because my b0x that’s to0 weak. But with the same machine, hardy runs m0re faster, especially the graphic card (maybe, because the driver..)
    Actually, I’m n0t satisfied with this version of ubuntu..

    - waiting f0r stable release 0f ubuntu 8.10, Jaunty Jackal0pe

  9. buggy Said,

    March 21, 2009 @ 9:42 pm

    IMHO the gnome system monitor is not very reliable, you could try “free -m” in the terminal (or “top” / “htop” for more details if you have istalled them).

    According to “free -m” I have 3042 MB RAM in total, 873 MB are used BUT 477 MB of them are cached, so the actual usage is 873-477=396 MB. For a live CD session this values are fine, I think.

    I like Hardy a lot!

  10. admin Said,

    March 22, 2009 @ 9:06 am

    @buggy,
    I already tried using free -m command on console, and it seems perfectly the same with what shown on Gnome System Monitor. Anyway, thanks…

  11. mike Said,

    April 6, 2009 @ 8:31 am

    can anyone elaborate on how to downgrade without doing a wipe?

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