[plug] Edgy Eft available

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:07 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 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!
> 

Thanks, ;-) maybe I'll install but not activate it - like Clinton who
never inhaled.  :-)


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