
The Ubuntu team announced the
release of Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed 'Edgy Eft'. Highlights for the desktop include GNOME 2.16, Firefox 2.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, Gaim 2.0 and two new applications, F-Spot and Tomboy. This release also features a pre-release of the upcoming LTSP-5, as well as the usual updates of the base system, with GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 2.4 and Linux 2.6.17. There's a
screenshot tour already, while Mark Shuttleworth
commented on the
news concerning Oracle and Linux.
Update: The first
review in what will probably become a long list.
Update II: Kubuntu 6.10
is released as well.
Member since:
2006-04-05
I upgraded from Dapper and found the upgrade required a good bit of manual installing of python related stuff, see bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/python-central/+bug/567...
After upgrading, xorg wouldn't load any driver (can't find that bug on launchpad).
I worked around that by using non-free nvidia driver, but then had "disappearing text" problem, see bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-module...
I fixed that by setting: Option "RenderAccel" "0" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Things work now. However, so far Edgy is quite disappointing compared to the polish of previous releases from Ubuntu.