{"id":348,"date":"2005-01-29T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2005-01-29T23:50:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-29T13:50:32","slug":"the-next-version-of-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/29\/the-next-version-of-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"the next version of ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

the preview live CD is out. got the ppc and x86 ones and tried it on my laptop and desktop respectively. Went pretty well. It did video mirroring (and not xinerama) on my desktop, which is annoying, but nobody else does it right either.<\/p>\n

the pcmcia wireless card worked out of the box<\/b> on my laptop. This is pretty impressive – i just had to put my WEP key in.<\/p>\n

When Hoary Hedgehog is released, I’m actually very tempted to switch (assuming, of course, that i get sleep support!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the preview live CD is out. got the ppc and x86 ones and tried it on my laptop and desktop respectively. Went pretty well. It did video mirroring (and not xinerama) on my desktop, which is annoying, but nobody else … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":359,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/15\/going-hoary-on-the-desktop\/","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":0},"title":"Going Hoary on the Desktop","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-02-15","format":false,"excerpt":"Downloading hoary-install-i386.iso and will soon be Ubuntu on my desktop machine. 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