{"id":708,"date":"2006-06-06T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/welcome-ubuntu-linux-606lts\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T14:51:09","slug":"welcome-ubuntu-linux-606lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/welcome-ubuntu-linux-606lts\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome &#8211; Ubuntu Linux 6.06LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Welcome &#8211; Ubuntu Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took the plunge and last night I upgraded my laptop (my <strong>primary<\/strong> work machine &#8211; as in it <strong><em>cannot<\/em><\/strong> be busted[1]) to Ubuntu 6.06LTS (otherwise known as Dapper Drake. The LTS is for Long Term Support). It went pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>I had to remove irda-utils after the upgrade as a module being loaded was causing a panic (which showed itself by having everything freeze about 4 seconds after gdm started up and you&#8217;re about to enter your username). I should report a bug for that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s slightly annoying that I had to disable gdm so i could see the panic to find out what was crashing. Perhaps we need either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>crash dumps (a-la IRIX and others where you can then run a debugger on an image of the crashed system)<\/li>\n<li>panic over the top of X (a-la early MacOS X)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to say though, I am very pleased with the upgrade. Everything seems a bit snappier (much welcome) and NetworkManager works! I haven&#8217;t tried to suspend my laptop yet though.. so we&#8217;ll see if that works.<\/p>\n<p>But a recent version of f-spot is welcome, I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;m going to start using it for my photos. The next trick is going to be when i completely run out of disk space on my laptop for them.<\/p>\n<p>The new Rhythmbox has me using it again. Disappointed not to see google talk support in gaim (although maybe i&#8217;m just not looking right).<\/p>\n<p>The Window List still exists &#8211; a UI element I solemly think should die a quick death. It didn&#8217;t work in Microsoft Windows 95 with more than a few windows\u00c2\u00a0 open and it doesn&#8217;t work any better now (okay,\u00c2\u00a0 a little, but not much).<\/p>\n<p>I want to take a second and marvel at the <strong>look<\/strong> of the new Human theme. It is rather lickable and, as we know, the only thing that matters with UI is how much you are licking your monitor. Even without wizz-bang GL compositing powered by cold fusion bucky ball quantum knot computers, it seems nice.<\/p>\n<p>gnome-xchat is taking a little bit of getting used to, but the toast that pops up when somebody &#8220;stewart: hey&#8221;&#8216;s me is useful.<\/p>\n<p>Epiphany has received some updates too which are quite welcome. A bunch of elements used in phpBMS for Web 2.0 stuff are a <strong>lot<\/strong> faster. In previous blog entries I&#8217;ve said why I&#8217;m using Epiphany and not Firefox. I may re-asses this at some point, but I&#8217;m not really in any mood to manually move over saved passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Evolution seems to suck up a bit less memory. Started out only using about 247MB. Now 338MB+52MB for evolution-data-server though&#8230;. maybe I&#8217;m just not feeling it as much due to other things chewing up less. WHY THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE 390MB FOR A PUNY 10GB[2] OR SO OF MAIL?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand though, there&#8217;s been a bunch of UI improvements in Evolution that are really welcome. I&#8217;m quite pleased with the upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>My Bluetooth seems to have broken (my send image from phone to laptop didn&#8217;t work). I haven&#8217;t had time to debug yet.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me or do fonts look a bit better too?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably going to run beagle soon too.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of Deskbar seems to work a lot better. I&#8217;ve noticed I&#8217;m using it more. Although is it worth 37MB of RES memory?<br \/>\nTomboy seems to have gotten a bit better, but I&#8217;m still experiencing a bug where if i click anywhere that there isn&#8217;t text in my &#8220;Start Here&#8221; note I get a new note with some random large chunk of text from my &#8220;start here&#8221; note. I credit tomboy with a lot &#8211; namely a boost to productivity and not loosing notes. I massively heart it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be trying MonoDevelop again to see how easy it really is to whip up something quickly. In breezy things seemed to crash too often to be useful.<\/p>\n<p>The support for switching between audio output devices is much welcomed. However, there still seems to be some bugs &#8211; especially related to USB audio devices. I have an iMic here that I bought years ago and am again using since the headphone port on my laptop seems to be having problems (electrical connection related, not software).<\/p>\n<p>Liferea (feed reader) has a lot of improvements. I think it&#8217;s chewing less RAM too.<\/p>\n<p>I had to fiddle with my keyboard layout things to get my DVORAK layout working properly. It still seems as though Ctrl-Alt-Left Arrow (and Right) to switch between Workspaces only works for the left cntrl and alt &#8211; not the right ones (that are closer to the arrows). Although now the little keyboard applet shows &#8220;USA&#8221; for Dvorak, &#8220;USA*&#8221; for QWERTY and &#8220;Swe&#8221; for Swedish.<br \/>\nMy build of MySQL that I use (for important things &#8211; i.e. my invoices that make sure I get paid) that is typically a close-to-top-of-tree 5.1 install kept working after the upgrade &#8211; i.e .binary compatibility didn&#8217;t get boned. I did, however, need to rebuild some of my MySQL source trees afterwards (some linking with SSL foo failed, clean build fixed it).<\/p>\n<p>I also did a fresh install from the Desktop CD under VMWARE on another machine. Quite nice installer.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;ll move my Mum&#8217;s machine over to 6.06LTS very soon (this weekend) as I&#8217;m confident it&#8217;ll be a great release for her. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s going to love f-spot. I&#8217;m also going to introduce her to rhythmbox, Sound Juicer and possibly last.fm as she now has speakers plugged into her computer and a CD player in her car (okay, had it for a while, just slack in getting her up and running burning copies of CDs for the car).<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get Avahi out of the box after the upgrade&#8230; I wonder if I need this manually for the &#8220;Share my Music&#8221; feature of Rhythmbox to work. Installing now, so I&#8217;ll soon know.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried Ekiga (GnomeMeeting, but new name) Internet Phone yet with any SIP things. Since I have a physical SIP phone (a SNOM-190) I may not really use it (except when travelling). Good to test at some point though.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic\">real<\/span> OpenOffice.org 2.0 is <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">much overdue<\/span> &#8211; as I&#8217;ve sworn rabidly about before. Big difference being this version <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">actually works<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>A very worthwhile upgrade IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>The next box to get the upgrade will by my MythTV box &#8211; or Mum&#8217;s. But probably both this upcoming (long) weekend.<\/p>\n<p>[1] I, of course, have up to date backups and a quick disaster recovery process (get machine, xfsrestore \/ and \/home, continue working). However, this is a pain in the arse.<br \/>\n[2] This may be wrong&#8230; &#8220;du -sh Maildir&#8221; just takes too damn long. My Maildir is currently 1.7GB in a tar.bz2 archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome &#8211; Ubuntu Linux I took the plunge and last night I upgraded my laptop (my primary work machine &#8211; as in it cannot be busted[1]) to Ubuntu 6.06LTS (otherwise known as Dapper Drake. The LTS is for Long Term &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/welcome-ubuntu-linux-606lts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5,1,10,18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets","category-general","category-gnome","category-grumble","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-bq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":272,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/ubuntu-linux\/","url_meta":{"origin":708,"position":0},"title":"Ubuntu Linux","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-09-16","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubuntu Linux - Welcome to Ubuntu Linux Yes... the super secret debian project is out of the bag! 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