[plug] Edgy Eft available

[Shannon Carver]

My experience is similar to Senectus's.  My major gripe with Dapper, was
even with a new install on a brand new machine (Core2Duo (Merom) 2.0Ghz with
2GB RAM), start time just seemed a little too long.  Even cutting boot
services and improving network mounts didn't help.

The upgrade to Edgy changed all this instantly.  Time from Boot to GDM Login
screen was approximately 3 minutes in dapper, its about 30-60 seconds in
Edgy (I did some optimising of boot services after Edgy Upgrade too, so that
may have improved start times slightly too).

Upgrade experiences were pretty much fine.  I had the same problem with X
(nVidia drivers breaking was the cause) that many other have noticed from
apt-get dist-upgrade, but a simple apt-get nvidia-glx reinstall fixed the
problem. 

The Ubuntu Wiki has correct upgrade procedure, but I've heard the easiest
way is letting aptitude do the work for you:
"aptitude dist-upgrade"

Bernard is right about Beryl too.  I'd been running Compiz/XGL up until
about a month ago and installed Beryl on my Dapper install.  Eye candy is
delicious, with a front end/theme manager that handles everything for you as
well.  No more messing around with GConf and config files.  Needless to say,
Beryl looks fantastic.  It's not over the top, and with a couple of annoying
quirks turned off (time based wobble/blur everytime I got an MSN message in
an inactive window was a bit much) its fantastic.. A must have in my
opinion.

Cheers!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Bernard Blackham
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:08 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Edgy Eft available
> 
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 16:56 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > Just to get to something on-topic, although the list has been inundated
> > with strange stuff lately - has anyone here downloaded the latest Edgy
> > and is running it? Is it worth it?
> 
> Nothing major broke in the upgrade here. Having said that I'd make sure
> you set aside a day "just in case" - I did encounter some crashing apps.
> I had to patch some random oddball programs I used (qiv and linsmith),
> but everything else is fine. Firefox 2 has some awesome features!
> 
> It would have been such a productive day, until I installed Beryl[1] and
> I've gotten no work done ever since ... don't do it! I never thought
> that I was one for eye candy, until now. Translucent windows, desktop
> cubes, spanning windows across desktops ... I could spend all day just
> spinning the desktop cube. Maybe I need to get out more. But it looks
> awesome! And it worked straight out of the box - the wiki instructions
> worked flawlessly. It was never meant to be this easy! :P
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> [1] http://www.beryl-project.org/ ... don't do it!
> 
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