Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Ubuntu Edgy Eft: Very Nice, and here are my thoughts
I must admit, the 6.10 ‘Edgy Eft’ release of Ubuntu is serving me quite well. I’m not sure what it is, but this one shows progress since my last install of Ubuntu ‘Dapper Drake’. Things I’ve noticed:
1) XGL setup… still the most difficult compared to SLED10, Gentoo, and OpenSuse but works better than Fedora 6 (which I couldn’t get to work)
2) Ndiswrapper is still an “add on”…. but most people using laptops need to install it (how about a Systems app for ‘1-click’ installs for most common things like XGL, Windows media, Flash, ndiswrapper). If it’s “legal issues” holding you back, just have a community app that does this and that way users have to install just 1 app and not 10 separate ones for 10 separate functionalities.
3) Synaptic Package Manager is near-flawless.
4) The ‘polish’ adjective that got everyone discussing it’s meaning still applies. Ubuntu has polish and I’m not afraid to say it without defining it.
5) Evolution.. oh how I hate it. But need it… New version is better and I am turning on to it a little.
6) With XGL “on” I noticed they’re automatically handling the applications bar – very nice. So now when you flip to a new side of the ‘cube’ you don’t see apps open on the other side.
7) XGL default settings are WAY too much. It’s annoying when by default the wobbly effect takes 4 seconds to stop wobblying… had to turn those down with gconf-editor – is there an XGL settings GUI for Ubuntu? I honestly don’t know.
8) Was hoping to get some new graphics for the background.. minor disappointment.
9) Install is better – but I’d love to see LVM integration for partitioning like in Fedora 6. That blew me away at the simplistic nature of it.
10) SELinux… how long can Ubuntu continue ignoring integration of SELinux and policies if it wants to go corporate/commercial?
11) Flash – much nicer now that we have Adobe releasing the v9 beta. The v9b installs very easily (and works).
12) I noticed there’s no CD/DVD burner by default.. hmmm… Gnome burning just doesn’t cut it. Had to install Gnomebaker.
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November 18th, 2006 at 9:33 am
Sami Dalouche » Xen and SELinux : anything in common ? said:
[...] So now, what I am wondering about is why all the buzz goes to Xen, and nobody really cares about SELinux (except maybe Red Hat which seems to provide decent SELinux support in its distribution). Ubuntu, in any case, does not seem to make SELinux its priority, as Michael Dolan highlights it. [...]