tuxmaniac’s blog

Its been slightly more than 24 hours since I upgraded to the upcoming “bleeding edge” Intrepid Ibex edition of Ubuntu!

The Good:

• I am extremely happy about the Network Manager working flawlessly for me (until now ) even on a WPA2 system which I had troubles before.
• My WIFI LED is back indicating wireless connectivity and activity
• Love the New Human Theme. I rarely used any of the default Ubuntu themes but I like this one very much. Check screenshot here.
• The games that I play have got some major upgrades.
• Pidgin has undergone some cool development. One must use it to see and feel it
• Its a great feeling when you are using the latest and greatest of the Free Software world.
• Flickr uploader now allows me to add to groups and also set Privacy. That is cool!
• Lots more…

Bad:

• I have already seen quite a few bugs which could be annoying for most people. Like this firefox bug, this terminator bug.
• Still having troubles playing flash videos on Firefox. Either there is no sound or firefox crashes randomly while playing.
• The media Keys provided on the front of my wonderful M1210 Dell XPS laptop no more works. Which means I have to go to the volume control menu and pull it down using the mouse. Already reported the issue in Launchpad.
• Minor issues which randomly pop up now and then mostly related to firefox.

The Ugly:

• My Laptop fails to boot sometimes and hangs during loading of the iwl3945 driver. Really sucks that I have to hard power off and then again boot and then it boots. It seems a known bug but still very annoying!!!

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