{"id":83,"date":"2006-10-29T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/ubuntu-edgy-released-foibles-and-all\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T16:31:07","slug":"ubuntu-edgy-released-foibles-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/ubuntu-edgy-released-foibles-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Edgy released, foibles and all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a birthday present on Friday in the form of a new Ubuntu release, Edgy Eft.  I downloaded the 6.10 ISO and promptly burned the 6.06 ISO to CD, only noticing when I got it home.  Oh well, several hundred megs of downloads later...<\/p>\n<p>Some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to a change in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/doc\/packaging-manuals\/python-policy\/\">Python packaging policy<\/a>, <tt>python2.4-module<\/tt> packages are deprecated in favour of <tt>python-module<\/tt> packages that have an X-Python-Version field in their control file.<\/li>\n<li>If you get a black screen &amp; crash testing the <a href=\"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=39\">beta NVIDIA driver<\/a>, you probably need to edit \/etc\/modules and remove the <tt>eeprom<\/tt> driver.  Found on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvnews.net\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?t=78286\">NVIDIA Linux forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beryl-project.org\/\">Beryl<\/a>, the community Compiz fork, is, well, \"a little over the top\".  After figuring out the settings to subdue it a little bit, I've got it usable.  The settings dialog could do with a lot of love however, so anyone who is interested in UI and has free time (unfortunately I only currently hit one out of two) might like to volunteer to help.<\/p>\n<p>I leave with a little laugh (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/koke.amedias.org\/articles\/2006\/10\/28\/fake-ad-i-presume\">Jorge Bernal<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/96\/281193199_519775b141.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Bill Gates recommending Ubuntu\" title=\"Bill Gates recommending Ubuntu\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a birthday present on Friday in the form of a new Ubuntu release, Edgy Eft. I downloaded the 6.10 ISO and promptly burned the 6.06 ISO to CD, only noticing when I got it home. Oh well, several hundred megs of downloads later... Some notes: Due to a change in Python packaging policy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,68],"tags":[34,8,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}