I did have some trouble upgrading from Dapper (to which I upgraded from 5.10), the first time I ran the upgrade it choked out because a package hadn't been removed when it should (bad dependencies probably), at least it kept the 1.4GB of packages it downloaded first.
A few overwritten config files later I ran apt-get update & apt-get upgrade a few times then bit the bullet and restarted, surprisingly the system booted (albeit without the new usplash due to an fsck being run on/). I was greeted by the login prompt, the theme had been changed back and my alarm clock user no longer automatically logged in after 100 seconds - due to the new gdm.conf the upgrade made.
Having logged in I noticed my theme and icons had been changed which was a little intrusive, but everything seemed to run fine.
Speedwise not much has changed (although Firefox 2 seems to be quite proficient at consuming memory when more than a few tabs are open), the quicker boot times advertised don't really show although my system does seem to shut down considerably faster now.
I'm surprised I haven't been thrown back to textmode like I was when trying to go from 5.10, but I agree the process could be made better.
Am I the only one that thinks Quake IV is a little faithless?
Where are the freaky butchering plants and stuff? Replace every instance of "Strogg" with another wierd name and its pretty much a generic shoot-the-aliens game.
There aren't any secrets (or even a super shotgun or more importantly a Quad), or challenging jumpy bits like there were in Q2.
Piloting vehicles is more like playing Halo with the recharging shields, and the fellow squaddies to run over.
If I had Quake 3 maybe I'd see more similarities (I avoided it because my 233MHz P1 and 16MB RAM couldn't cut it, plus I had a 28.8kb/s modem) but I still can't help looking at it as a shooter that happens to have the same name instead of Quake 4.
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I did have some trouble upgrading from Dapper (to which I upgraded from 5.10), the first time I ran the upgrade it choked out because a package hadn't been removed when it should (bad dependencies probably), at least it kept the 1.4GB of packages it downloaded first. A few overwritten config files later I ran apt-get update & apt-get upgrade a few times then bit the bullet and restarted, surprisingly the system booted (albeit without the new usplash due to an fsck being run on /). I was greeted by the login prompt, the theme had been changed back and my alarm clock user no longer automatically logged in after 100 seconds - due to the new gdm.conf the upgrade made.
Having logged in I noticed my theme and icons had been changed which was a little intrusive, but everything seemed to run fine.
Speedwise not much has changed (although Firefox 2 seems to be quite proficient at consuming memory when more than a few tabs are open), the quicker boot times advertised don't really show although my system does seem to shut down considerably faster now.
I'm surprised I haven't been thrown back to textmode like I was when trying to go from 5.10, but I agree the process could be made better.
Yes it works in Opera 9, but the walls flicker on every step (not sure if it's like that on all browsers).
Am I the only one that thinks Quake IV is a little faithless? Where are the freaky butchering plants and stuff? Replace every instance of "Strogg" with another wierd name and its pretty much a generic shoot-the-aliens game. There aren't any secrets (or even a super shotgun or more importantly a Quad), or challenging jumpy bits like there were in Q2. Piloting vehicles is more like playing Halo with the recharging shields, and the fellow squaddies to run over. If I had Quake 3 maybe I'd see more similarities (I avoided it because my 233MHz P1 and 16MB RAM couldn't cut it, plus I had a 28.8kb/s modem) but I still can't help looking at it as a shooter that happens to have the same name instead of Quake 4.
..will it be before Hollywood demands copy protection?
Does it still index private files and let other users see them on public machines? My guess is it still does...
Point 2:
In Windows you can run explorer windows as separate explorer processes so you can kill it without the start menu disappearing.