Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex - The Good, Bad and the ugly
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!!!
October 11th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Try installing the latest build of flash 10 from adobe, It outperforms previous versions by a long shot, its faster, clearer and doesn’t crash or crash firefox… And seems to work well with pulse audio too.. If you ask me flash 10 should be given an exemption and used as default in intrepid.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The wifi indicator light is really annoying. All I need to know is if the wifi is on or off. Not for it to flash at be all the time.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Add to bad:
Shame Kubuntu Intrepid’s knetworkmanager still doesn’t work on an eeepc.
Sorry to add this to your blog, but this is reaching boiling point for me.
October 12th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Try newly released Mandriva 2009.0
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-Linux-2009-Released-95309.shtml
October 12th, 2008 at 8:17 am
@Shashwat, Thanks for the info. But I never asked for suggestions. I am more than happy with what I am using now.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Install libasound2-plugins then run “asoundconf set-pulseaudio” to get sound in Adobe Flash.
October 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am
The wallpapers updated now.
And isn’t the first hard theme on intrepid