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Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Released
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:18 am
by cman1999
http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/
Still listening to the show and find that Breezy is out. Sweetness.
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:18 am
by Polymira
I got the ppc live cd, and holy god ... it actually works great on the powerbook...
Minus: Airport Extreme (of course, broadcom)
3d Accell (damn you nvidia!)
MABYE bluetooth... it's nice.
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:34 am
by snarkout
I have to say that I'm a lot less happy with the final release than I was with the development snapshots. First off, having totem open any inserted media dvds by default, even if there is no dvd support, is asinine. I hate totem. Being greeted with "NO I WON'T FSCKING OPEN THAT MEDIA TYPE!!!!" every time I happen to forget to chose "Open With..." is very irritating for me -- imagine how a newbie must feel. Gstreamer may be ready for the audio world, but it is so far from usable it isn't funny. I'd file a bug on this, but this behavior is so painfully obviously wrong (look at the ubuntu forums for examples of many people having HUGE amounts of trouble) that it's like a stick in the eye. If somehow the was "missed" by the devs, they have more problems than totem. And yes, I know this can be changed, and where to change it (though hunting through all of gnome's preferences is a major PITA) but how many newbies do? Isn't that the point of ubuntu/gnome? Make things easy to understand for new users? The HIG isn't worth much if the desktop refuses to cooperate.
Kaffeine insists on showing me the first launch info every single time it's opened, and crashes as often as it did when hoary was first released. I may run a few straces and submit a bug report on this.
The lack of grey area codecs in *any* of the new breezy repos sucks, but is understandable. It is however a major reason for me to not recommend the distro to people thinking of migrating to linux. I ordered a 10 pack of shipit CDs, and I'm honestly wondering if I'd feel OK about handing them out at work (this was my original idea - give cds to customers who are sick of windows problems, and show an interest in alternatives).
I really *want* to like ubuntu - it has *so* much promise. It is, however, starting to remind me of Apple in many of the ways that made me reconsider my Maclot status. Unfortunately, the same can be said about gnome. It is certainly a lot more "elegant" than KDE, especially 2.12, but I'm beginning to feel completely boxed in by the major lack of options.
Ah, well, there's always Kanotix!
Edited to deharshify this a tad.
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:42 pm
by snarkout
After re-reading that post, I realized that I'm being a jackass. This is ferchrissakes linux - if it dosn't work, FIX IT! So I came up with the following script:
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#!/bin/bash
# This is a simple (very simple) script I've banged together
# to enable the w32codecs and libdvdcss2 in breezy w/o having
# to resort to finding 3rd party repos. The w32codecs are from
# Christian Marillat's repos, and the libdvdcss2 stuff is from
# the vlc website. I do not guarantee that running this script
# will not feed your boxen hot death, so run it at your own risk.
# If this script eats your brain, it is your own fault, not mine.
# I have run it on a few of my own machines, and everything
# worked out fine. You may not be so lucky. You may end up crying.
# Nice boilerplate, eh?
# Grabbing the tarfile from linuxfortherestofus.com
wget linuxfortherestofus.com/junk/fun_debs.tgz
# Unpacking the tarfile - verbose because that's how I like it
tar -xzvf fun_debs.tgz
cd fun_debs
# Installing the debs
dpkg -i w32codecs_20050412-0.0_i386.deb
dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i libdvdcss2-dev_1.2.9-1_i386.deb
# Making a /usr/local/lib/codecs link - some stuff expects it there.
ln -s /usr/lib/win32/ /usr/local/lib/codecs
echo "You now have the i113g41 c0d3c5 on your box!"
It's worked like a charm on 3 different machines. Like it says in the comments - this is *simple* there is *no* error checking -
none! I may refine it more in the future, but knowing me, I may not.
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:58 pm
by snarkout
You, of course, either need to run that script as root, or sudo the script.
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:28 am
by frostbyte
Man I have had nothing but problems with breezy. I went back to the one before it.
I'll have to get into what I had problems with later...its too late
my 2 cents worth
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:47 am
by jsusanka
I have done one apt-get dist-upgrade, two clean installs, and one upgrade with the cd using synaptics.
Everything went fine on all of them - I still have to do a power pc install so I will see how that goes. I will probably just do an apt-get dist-upgrade cause I am lazy.
My main workstation/server at home has a tv card in it and it seems to have detected it and xawtv works great. So I haven't had any problems with any of them at all and breezy seems to be pretty darn good.