Edgy Eft


Hello from Edgy Eft!
Recently I got a new disk and I decided it might be a good idea to make a clean new install (I had the previous system through warty - hoary - breezy - dapper). I didn’t want to upgrade the old system to something which is still unstable and I thought it might also be good to get rid of all the trash that I don’t use anyway… (well, yeah, I copied my whole home directory with a lot of trash, but at least I got rid of the programs that I don’t use).

And the first time experience? Magnificent! I encountered no serious problems, almost everything “just worked” out of the box and the things that didn’t were pretty easy to fix.

List of “nice and surprising”:

  • sounds: the default intro sound of gnome was so horrible it was almost unlistenable, the new one just rocks, gaim also has different sounds, it will take a while to get used to it but they are better I think (and now gaim also has a volume control, w00t)
  • new artwork: nothing spectacular, a bit better than dapper (which was pretty good, at least compared to previous “shit brown” themes)
  • firefox: 2.0beta is just better (it has one small mistake that when I search by / it doesn’t let me highlight the words, which sucks, but maybe I can set it somewhere…)
  • gaim 2.0beta… it simply rulez (hey, why is everything 2.0beta?)
  • a lot of things stayed the same and 95% of my ~/.something configuration files work so I don’t have to reconfigure everything.
  • many problems that I expected didn’t occur at all… wifi (which was borken in the 2.6.15 kernel), nvidia, wine (particularly fonts), X server, java, etc.

But that was a clean install, I will see what an upgrade looks like when they release the official version and I will upgrade my sister’s system, but after such a pleasant experience I don’t expect any problems either.

Posted on 2006-10-14 at 11:07 pm, filed under linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Edgy Eft”

  1. tasuki says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    When you accidentally restart your computer firefox will offer restoring the previous session - that’s great, I really hated losing all my open tabs :-)

  2. Drc says:
    October 21st, 2006 at 6:19 pm

    Ahoj,
    mam dotaz tak trochu téma :-) Jde naistalovat na AMD64 32-bitovej systém? Pokud je p tom neco pekneho na netu tak URL potesi…
    Diky.

  3. tasuki says:
    October 22nd, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    Jde to, ale asi je to blbost…

    A na netu toho je…
    http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=134

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