Ubuntu Edgy Eft
For the most part I’ve been running Dapper Drake (the latest stable release) on both my laptop and desktop. All the while I’ve had a testing install of Edgy Eft, slated for release in October, running alongside. There are a number of big issues—Java applets cause Firefox to crash and there are some nasty font-rendering problems with Firefox. These will all be worked out come release time.
For the first time in about two weeks I’ve booted into Edgy and done a full upgrade. Wow. It feels fast. It boots incredibly quickly and the whole system feels more responsive. Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) is great too—the red-underlines for unknown words in text fields is an absolute must.
Obviously GNOME 2.16 is full of great new features, Evolution in particular. I really get the feeling that Edgy will be a great and fast release.
Congratulations and thanks to all of the GNOME and Ubuntu devs—great work!
Tags: Ubuntu
October 24th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
heyas all.
my 40 gig drive is going to good use now. I have installed UBUNTU and have ordered KUBUNTU.
I dont know how to install the driver for my ati radeon 9600xt.
Actually i dont know if i am meant to be downloading and installing XFREE86 or the XORG version of the driver. I am downloading them both but i dont know how to do anything in Linux really.
I dont know where I am meant to set up my modem or set up a net account. (no INETWIZ.EXE)
So yeah, can someone help me out with getting my ATI driver installed?
and does anyone know of a good long PDF file i can read and wrap my brain around.
I’m still a Windows user, but I want to use Linux as much as possible.
Thanks. :)