On Feisty Fawn
As most of the Linux world already knows, Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” v7.04 was released a couple of days ago. So being the good early-adopter that I am, here’s what I did to upgrade:
apt-get updatefollowed byapt-get dist-upgradeto update my Edgy Eftvim /etc/apt/sources.list, a dash of VIM magic,:s%:edgy:feistyto make APT look at the new stuffapt-get dist-upgrade- Whimper at the message — 997MB of packages to be downloaded
- Go to sleep and pray it’s done in the morning
None of that GUI nonsense. I’ll use my command line damnit!
Was it worth the upgrade? Well, there aren’t any blindingly obvious new features on the KDE side of things, unlike the GNOME folks who are at this very moment raving about drop shadows and compositing I’d imagine. It certainly feels more evolutionary than revolutionary, which is how I like it.
I have noticed a few new versions of things, like Amarok — got a few new buttons to play with, some fancier TreeViews with album art in it etc. I’m sure more stuff will show up in the next few days as I actually use the system.
So far only two things have gone bad:
- The file manager (Konqueror) suddenly decided it didn’t need half it’s menu items, and that toolbars were useless. A quick quit/restart fixed this. So no biggie.
- OpenOffice.org. What were they thinking? It looked ugly before with it’s non-native toolkit, but these new icons are just horrid. They’re a cross between Windows 3.11 and the Lila theme. It’s like they want us to hate OpenOffice.