Ubuntu-11.04 Countdown

first post from android

Sometime earlier this month I got my grubby paws on an android phone
. Using imy regular docomo SIM I'm discovering the fun of smartphones. I'm posting this using androblogger. A lot of fun indeed :)
More as I find it.

Gnome 2.30

Gnome 2.30's been released and if you're testing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1, you'll be getting the new Gnome packages through updates.

My system's not fully updated yet as some packages are still to be updated in the repos, e.g. Evolution is still at 2.28.3, but I reckon by Sunday, the update should be more or less complete.

As with the 10.04 Beta itself, no issues to report yet.

Trying out Ubuntu-10.04 Beta1

I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, well not so far. But in the spirit of open-mindedness, I'm testing 10.04-Beta1_amd64. And actually I quite like it. The new theme certainly helps, giving the Gnome desktop a very polished and non-intrusive feel.

The trick is now to force myself to use it continuously for a few weeks unlike previous attempts when I have given up after anything between minutes and days. The usual behaviour is to scuttle back to Arch or Gentoo (which I have used daily for 4 and 9 years respectively).

This time feels different - life is busy right now and I need a low maintenance desktop OS; the look and feel is really good (bar the icon-set, that needs some work before they release the final version), so good, it's relaxing to use.

And they've done wonders with the sound - out of the box, this has to be the best-sounding distro I've used so far; I'm using onboard sound, snd_hda_codec_realtek seems to be the major difference I'm seeing to other distros, along with some old Harman Kardon Soundsticks (rev. 1).

Still feeling my way around, will update as I go along.