[brlug-general] Debian Etch 4.0 Officialy Released

[willhill]

I've had problems with usb devices and hal.  KDE did something a couple of 
months ago and non root mounting broke.  Upgrading did not fix it, though I 
did not try dist-upgrade and lots of KDE stuff was held back.  I will not 
recommend Etch to newbies until I know how to fix this.  

As a desktop, there are lots of performance, appearance and feature 
improvements.  Starting new X sessions is now click and drool easy with both 
the KDE and Gnome user menus offering "switch user" options and instructions 
on how to get to the new session.  New local sessions don't come at a 
performance hit, even on my 233 MHz Thinkpad, so each user can keep their 
sessions up all the time get back to them through the usual keystrokes.  All 
the desktops look beautiful with crisp graphics and excellent fonts.  
Transparency is there and usable, if you want.  Gnome's performance boosting 
has paid off and I use more gnome applications more now.  The environment 
itself is almost as snappy as E16.  

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 12:57 pm, Marcus Reed wrote:
>  I am
> interested in anything else interesting about Etch that anyone else has
> found out.