I'm not if this is a good thing or a bad thing... There were a lot of new upstream releases in those updates, but, uhh... Dapper's supposed to be done!
Free bug fixes never hurt though...
Free bug fixes never hurt though...
Dapper a disapointment?
In in this week's DistroWatch.com's newsletter, I spotted a nice opinion piece about why you should give Fedora Core 5 a shot.
The interesting part to me was in the second paragraph though:
I think that's the first time I've read of anyone just flat out calling Ubuntu 6.06 a disappointment. Interesting? Definitely. Accurate? Probably more so than I'd like...
I can't really put my finger on it, but Dapper definitely has some rough edges. (I've been struggling this week on a new system with Dapper's installer, which seems to mess up installing GRUB in any configuration but the simplest one...)
The interesting part to me was in the second paragraph though:
Despite having been delayed by six weeks for "polish" and carrying a "Long Term Support" tag, the Ubuntu 6.06 release was a disappointment.
I think that's the first time I've read of anyone just flat out calling Ubuntu 6.06 a disappointment. Interesting? Definitely. Accurate? Probably more so than I'd like...
I can't really put my finger on it, but Dapper definitely has some rough edges. (I've been struggling this week on a new system with Dapper's installer, which seems to mess up installing GRUB in any configuration but the simplest one...)
Google Earth for Linux!
I never thought I'd see the day:
Yeah, I've got a lot of crap installed...
Enjoy!
Yeah, I've got a lot of crap installed...Google has just released a beta of Google Earth for Linux. It includes a better-than-usual installer, and appears to be WINE based (I stand corrected) uses QT3 as a graphics toolkit. From what I can tell, it's got all the features of the Windows version. It's nice to see this awesome application finally be released for Linux.
Enjoy!Google Spreadsheets
To my delight, when I opened my inbox this morning I found an invitation to try Google Spreadsheets. It's got a decent amount of spreadsheet functions (probably all the Excel ones), a cool AJAX-ified interface, and a nice auto-save feature.
I was hoping that it would be able to generate some funky SVG plots, but it looks like it can't do any plotting at all right now.
If someone discovers any more cool features, please post them in the comments!
I was hoping that it would be able to generate some funky SVG plots, but it looks like it can't do any plotting at all right now.
If someone discovers any more cool features, please post them in the comments!
(Oh yeah, and this isn't very Linux related, but oh well...) ;)
(... and another note: Don't mind OS X in the screenshot - I'm at work) :D
Gaming in XGL: Finally
Looks like I've been out of the loop for a while, because someone finally figured out how to get OpenGL accelerated apps to run on XGL without any noticeable performance hit. I just tested it with my Dapper/GNOME/Nvidia setup, and it works great!
This fix works by allowing those applications to run on the regular Xorg X server that runs beside XGL. The only side-effect is that if you try to run games in windowed mode, you won't be able to move them around because there won't be a window manager running on the other X server (although you might be able to just run one, but I haven't tried it.)
(... so no wobbly Quake 3 this way, but at least it works at full speed!)
This fix works by allowing those applications to run on the regular Xorg X server that runs beside XGL. The only side-effect is that if you try to run games in windowed mode, you won't be able to move them around because there won't be a window manager running on the other X server (although you might be able to just run one, but I haven't tried it.)
(... so no wobbly Quake 3 this way, but at least it works at full speed!)
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Released!
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was just released!
This new version features:
This new version features:
- Better hardware compatibility
- Newer versions of all your favourite software
- A quicker bootup time
- A simple one-command setup for a LAMP stack (this is particularly handy, since setting up Apache and MySQL securely can be tricky the first couple times you do it)
- Reasonably easy installation of XGL
- The best support community in the world