[brlug-general] "Chat feature?"

[willhill]

I don't know how things go in the Ubuntu world, but doing a dist-upgrade 
instead of a regular upgrade makes a big difference with Debian.

I'm still getting used to the new Etch.  Upgrading there was big but it worked 
very well.  Depending on how long it had been since installing and how much 
stuff the machine had, an apt-get dist-upgrade would pull between three and 
nine hundred megs of packages.  The net space consumed was about the same or 
less.  

One cool thing I've noticed is better window manager integration.  KDE's 
pager, for example, now picks up all of my enlightenment desktops and the 
stand alone version works in Gnome.  Transparency works better for everything 
too.  Of course the usual cut and paste sharing is still going strong.  

KDE device mounting is fixed but still quirky, which is a shame because it 
worked perfectly about a year ago.  Now you have to hit refresh every now and 
then to see changes.

On Monday 30 April 2007 9:10 pm, -ray wrote:
> I just installed kubuntu feisty on friday.  So far i like it, although the
> upgrade from dapper was pretty painful.  The recommended way was to
> upgrade to edgy first, then to feisty.  Yikes.  It took a while.  And also
> feisty had a nasty bug.  A really silly typo in the /etc/event.d/tty[1-6]
> files left me with no virtual terminals after the upgrade.  I eventually
> fixed it, but that bug should not have made it to the final release.
>
> ray
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