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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 16:21 UTC, submitted by thebluesgnr

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.

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my experience was buggy

by m_yates on Thu 26th Oct 2006 19:31 UTC

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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.

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RE: my experience was buggy

by aquila_deus on Fri 27th Oct 2006 09:29 in reply to "my experience was buggy"

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2005-10-02

That's sad. Disabling RenderAccel would make x compositing unusable.. That's a big feature in nvidia driver. (it's probably much better than all the EXA ones)

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