tuxmaniac’s blog

Today I upgraded from my Ubuntu Edgy Eft to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta. The upgrade went very smooth, similar to the smooth upgrade from Breezy Badger to Dapper Drake. And yes Dapper went on to be a stable release and a legend. Upgrade from Dapper to Edgy was not so smooth. My X b0rk and a few apps went unusable. After a day or two of hacking, I got everything in place. But today, upgrade from Edgy Eft to the Feisty Fawn was smoother. No hazards just for the times when I was running out of disk space as the upgrade was going on. Finally I was lucky enough (or just lucky enough) for the upgrade to finish with 42 MB of disk space left and of I went to a reboot expecting b0rked pieces which would need some fixing. To my surprise (and may be disappointment ) the reboot was perfect with the new revamped usplash image (more “bling”) being diplayed with the black background during boot up. Yay!! The fawn has begun its run…. Some changes that I noticed..

• Linux kernel is 2.6.20-15 (This is a fixed kernel after problems found in the previous patch)
• Sudoku, Chess and battleman are by default in the games list. Wow.
• OpenOffice 2.2 looks better but still not up there
• Debian Etch WallPaper is in by default on the Desktop Background list
• Beryl is now smoother.
• Network Manager upgraded and connecting to wireless networks is much easier now.
• Rest is fine. Except that the splash screen sucks big time. Edgy’s was gorgeous and sexy.

Update: Feisty Fawn Release Candidate has been delayed due to problems found with Nvidia ATA chipsets. Expected release in the week of April 19th (”The Feisty Fawn Release Day” hopefully)

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