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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Drawing Near
daria42 writes "Ubuntu developers are finalizing preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April. Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu's main software repository had been frozen — with no changes allowed to the code — as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version ("Herd 5") of the next version of Ubuntu."
Fuck, I just spent $399 on Vista Ultimate!!!!
And I can say is that Feisty is a big improvement over Edgy, both in hardware support and software "smoothness". It is a pity that Xorg 7.2 will not be ready for Feisty launch, but this is certainly a candidate to bring an alternative to Windows on the Desktop.
As opposed to freezes where you are allowed to change things...
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Actually Xorg 7.2 is currently on its way to feisty, thanks to efforts by a community member, working together with Debian and helped by some Ubuntu core developers: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/200 7-February/023252.html
The xserver-xorg-core is already version at 7.2 (or "1.2") now, with the rest of the modules going in gradually. With the modularity of X.org nowadays, it's not certain that all the newest driver work will be in, though. For example the ati driver has seen only some important patches backported to feisty, while there has been a lot of development and reworking without a proper release of xserver-xorg-video-ati lately.
Please would you point major features of Xorg 7.2 so it is a pity it does not get included? (not pretending to troll, I'm just ignorant).
It merely means that the code and repos have been frozen in order to allow for anything that's broken to be fixed and made ready for a public, stable release.
Development continues anyway, just that the code for this release has been frozen except for bug fixes.
At least, that's my understanding of it.
Your problems sound more like Gnome problems than Ubuntu problems; I should know, I didn't like Ubuntu on my first shot because I'm partial toward KDE (which I had going on Fedora). I made the switch to Kubuntu and haven't looked back.
It combines the wonderful Ubuntu codebase and DEB packaging system with the KDE interface. I certainly recommend you try it.
I'll wait for the "zombie zebra"
667 - one step ahead of the beast.
You don't need to run KDE. You just need the dependencies installed. Naturally, though, if you do use KDE stuff its going to increase your memory footprint.
... I still prefer KDE. But I understand the point of Gnome. It's not that one is perfect and the other is trash. Adjusting from one to another simply involves a series of small irritations as your unconscious expectations are violated, until you adjust. I found the Gnome file dialogs irritating at first; but they get the job done, only in a different way than I expected.
Maybe if you prefer KDE you should use Kubuntu. I haven't had your problems with Evolution because I use Thunderbird.
I've been using Gnome on Ubuntu; I started out preferring KDE strongly, but after using Gnome for a while
Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
I've been beta-testing Kubuntu Feisty for about a month now, and it's amazing. It's already a huge improvement over Edgy. Everything is so intuitive and easy to use; Feisty is going to kick ass.
Some of the new stuff they've added are a new wireless network manager by default, big improvements to the package installation system, easy codec/flash installation, lots of user interface tweaks... It looks so polished now, I love it.
Here are the Herd release announcements, containing a subset of the changes Feisty brings:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd1/Kubuntu
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd2/Kubuntu
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd3/Kubuntu
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd4/Kubuntu
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
Alternatively, you may play with xfce if you like by adding xfce packages as follows:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
GP, simply hop into a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
No need to reinstall anything; it's that easy to switch. If you liked KDE in Mandrake, you'll surely like KDE in Kubuntu.
Ubuntu version names are (now) alphabetical, so Dapper Drake preceded Edgy Eft, which precedes Feisty Fawn. The names are always Adjective Animal ('eft' is another name for a newt).
There are also version numbers, so that Edgy Eft is 6.10 (meaning year 2006, month 10). The releases are supposed to be every six months in April and October.
Barry
Feisy Fawn is even closer as I type!
Tollef Fog Heen came back from lunch and just turned on his screen. Now that is progress.
Oh man, we live excilarating times.
Please check back for updates:
In one hour Tollef Fog Heen will finish to write an email.
In three hours Tollef Fog Heen will complete one icon missing in one of the menus in the graphic installer.
In 5 hours Tollef Fog Heen goes home. Nooooooo! Ubuntu development stalled! Stop the presses....
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Feisty Fawn is not sexy enough. I'm going to wait for the Nubile Nymph release.
Actually, WoW really does work right out of the box with Wine. It has entirely Gold or Platinum status on WineHQ:8 2
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http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=64
On that page there's a hugely overcomplicated guide on getting it working; Feisty will tremendously simplify things, especially since it comes with Wine 0.9.30. Here's how you'd install WoW in Feisty:
1) Install your video card drivers. This involves clicking Applications->Add Applications, clicking Advanced, and choosing nvidia-glx for NVidia cards or xorg-driver-fglrx for ATI. Much simpler than on Windows.
2) Restart X (press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE).
3) Put the WoW install CD in the drive.
4) Browse to your CD-rom (/media/cdrom) and double-click Installer.exe
5) Do the Next-Next-Finish dance
6) Double click the icon on your desktop to launch the game.
So it's pretty much identical to Windows, except the CD won't autorun.
"Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Drawing Near"
> Command? (A)ttack (S)pell (I)tem (R)un:
Or have a server that's always seeding instead of an http server. Anyone who wants a file to be always available should have this anyway.
migrate your mail: I installed my own IMAP server (courier-imap, use Maildir-format to store mail in individual users' $HOME, configure system-wide fetchmail to deliver email to users). That way you can change tour mail client on a daily basis, since they all support IMAP, and your mail stays in the same place. As an added bonus you can use email on other computers in your house if you have a laptop with WiFi ot something like that. Once you've set your IMAP up, you can darag-and-drop historic email from your "old" evolution email into IMAP, close evolution for good, and run Kmail, thunderbird, mutt, ot whatever else you like.
You know you've stumbled into an *NIX-centric discussion when people say 'reboot every few days' like it's a bad thing.