Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Tuesday, 4. March 2008, 12:47:06
Hi, long time no see.... 
Hardy Heron's gonna officially say hello to the rest of the world next month, while the hardcore-tester me have already started the Alpha testing.
3 hours after I started the command to kick-off the update, voila, and my system reboots into a whole new dimension.
To my surprise, for the first time, Network Manager actually WORKS out-of-the-box! Omg I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw the applet connecting to my network with ZERO configuration. Vividly, I remember how I curse the Network Manager developers to hell in Fesity times when it was introduced because it completely breaks my wireles.
I am sorry, you guys rocks, but can you please tell me how the heck I got it to work with static IP instead?
See, I got it working, and the digital clock now even tells me the weather automatically!
Next on my surprise list... Compiz-Fusion... works flawlessly without a single tweak!!! No more horrible X-session manipulation, and I dont have to test my patient with the sucky AMD graphics card driver anymore. It just, works.
Here comes wobbly window, transparency, and the impressive EXPO mode (show all desktops)...
Check out the all new Task Manager! Are you excited yet?
Whats weird is that, with all the new bling bling, the system CPU usage has been very well-maintained!!! Whats up with the Ubuntu folks huh, you guys must be ex-nasa scientist or wat to make all these achievable on my old P4 1.6G machine. I am sure the Microsoft folks down at Redmond wouldnt even want me to try running Aero with it, it completely degrades their profile.
Well, there are certain hiccups of course, Wine and Java broke, somehow, but this is nothing I cannot solve in 1 hour. Compared to my previous experience with the X-windows shit of the AMD card, I consider this Hardy Heron Alpha experience a major success.
Looking forward to the official release, and oh man I sure hope there's a launch party down here in Singapore.
Hardy Heron's gonna officially say hello to the rest of the world next month, while the hardcore-tester me have already started the Alpha testing.
3 hours after I started the command to kick-off the update, voila, and my system reboots into a whole new dimension.
To my surprise, for the first time, Network Manager actually WORKS out-of-the-box! Omg I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw the applet connecting to my network with ZERO configuration. Vividly, I remember how I curse the Network Manager developers to hell in Fesity times when it was introduced because it completely breaks my wireles.
I am sorry, you guys rocks, but can you please tell me how the heck I got it to work with static IP instead?
See, I got it working, and the digital clock now even tells me the weather automatically!
Next on my surprise list... Compiz-Fusion... works flawlessly without a single tweak!!! No more horrible X-session manipulation, and I dont have to test my patient with the sucky AMD graphics card driver anymore. It just, works.
Here comes wobbly window, transparency, and the impressive EXPO mode (show all desktops)...
Check out the all new Task Manager! Are you excited yet?
Whats weird is that, with all the new bling bling, the system CPU usage has been very well-maintained!!! Whats up with the Ubuntu folks huh, you guys must be ex-nasa scientist or wat to make all these achievable on my old P4 1.6G machine. I am sure the Microsoft folks down at Redmond wouldnt even want me to try running Aero with it, it completely degrades their profile.
Well, there are certain hiccups of course, Wine and Java broke, somehow, but this is nothing I cannot solve in 1 hour. Compared to my previous experience with the X-windows shit of the AMD card, I consider this Hardy Heron Alpha experience a major success.
Looking forward to the official release, and oh man I sure hope there's a launch party down here in Singapore.
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By pfelelep, # 5. March 2008, 15:28:53
but of course I think you can get the Kubuntu flavor the same way... with KDE 4...
By kolslorr, # 6. March 2008, 13:45:30
I also use Mandriva and Knoppix
By pfelelep, # 11. March 2008, 12:04:54