Major updates to Edgy Eft have resulted in a much faster user experience. Although I can’t prove it, Firefox seems much more stable as well. Still waiting on win32codecs and ruby gems but Anjunta (misspelled in a previous post) is available. It is GNOME based which I didn’t realize. I also grabbed KDevelop which has a ruby IDE which I rather like.
UPDATE:
I’m not sure what I did (if anything) but now all video and audio file types work in all players.
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1 Charlie // Oct 20, 2006 at 22:01
Go (K)(X)(U)buntu! I just installed the RC of Ubuntu Edgy on a spare desktop, and surprisingly it’s gotten even better. I finally even like the fonts in Firefox. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a distro that had good font support out of the box. I tried Kubuntu, but didn’t have as good of luck. I guess I’m not much of a KDE guy. Speaking of that, have you seen these two moronic articles?
http://thebeez.vnunetblogs.com/the_beez_speaks/2006/10/three_reasons_n.html
http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=816
I can’t believe how involved people get… and in desktop environments at that! Oh well.
I’m liking the Ubuntu/FOSS coverage. Keep it up.
2 Mike // Oct 21, 2006 at 19:42
I haven’t had the courage to try Edgy… how does it now compare to Dapper in your opinion?
3 nedsferatu // Oct 21, 2006 at 23:09
Charlie:
Thanks for the feedback! What problems did you encounter with Kubuntu. I started with Ubuntu and GNOME but eventually found my home with KDE. The thing I like most about Linux in general is the reconfigurability. It feels like real computing with everything so transparent and easy to modify. When those concepts are applied to a desktop environment I think that really appeals to me. I also like how mature KDE and the accompanying apps are. It’s wonderful when you can choose among excellence rather than the lesser of two evils.
The articles were interesting. At least to some extent, I like to know why choices exist and who finds what more appealing and for what reasons. The XYZ article may be a bit misleading in one section where they talk about the exclusivity of GTK and QT apps. I’ve run KDE apps in GNOME and vice versus. In theory, with the required libraries they work fine. And on the whole they do (with the occasional bug).
The desktop environment comes under more debate perhaps because it is the user experience and a personal choice. Down to applets, backgrounds, and themes most people have found what is comfortable for them. Sometimes people make the mistake of interpreting that to the correct or final answer on a desktop environment. I run two Kubuntu boxes and a Xubuntu box and they all look different because of their different purposes (the xubuntu box doesn’t even have a desktop environment installed!). So if there isn’t a correct answer even among my machines, how could there be for everyone? All Hail Linux! :-)
Mike:
well, my experience with Edgy has been good: it has been quite stable and with the official release on the horizon, I’ve seen it really pull together. It is quite snappy. My understanding is that the pre-release version is now available for testing before the official. So if you want to check it out a few weeks before it’s made “public” I recommend giving it a shot. (just a matter of switching everything “dapper” in the sources.list file to “edgy”, I think)
My understanding is that the next ubuntu release “Feisty Fawn” will be based around user experience and that Edgy is more focused on backend improvements. I think init has gotten significant upgrades along with other critical systems. I don’t think you will see much difference on the surface when compared with dapper. Although Firefox 2.0, and a new version of KDE come with it.
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