Blogging Ottinger (tim)Fiesty Upgrade
I updated my laptop from edgy to fiesty. There is not a lot of difference, which is a good thing. I have only spent two days with it, and have noticed a few things worth a mention:
- It has a “restricted drivers manager” that works. However, the ATI driver for my thinkpad (T42p) is not very good and flickers. I’m back to the stable, solid open-source driver for now.
- Overall the XFC34 stuff works great, but Thunar icons are not all that they should be. I don’t see folders for my directores, but documents. I had gotten used to better visual iconography. Not sure why this isn’t working.
Otherwise everything is ducky. Or “fawny” I suppose.
Another fellow decided that Ubuntu makes windows look pretty bad, and I have to agree. This is is not the linux you had in the 1900s, and the experience is much improved from only a few years ago. Ubuntu, Debian. LSF, the Kernel team, etc are doing a wonderful job of making Linux a very stable and very attractive operating system for everyone. Or at least everyone who is interested in switching operating systems.
On a sad note, I think my DVD/CD drive is dying. It no longer plays movies and has trouble with some CDs. I guess I should look at replacing both my DVD drive and upgrading my hard drive to something larger than a measley 80GB.
