Release the Gibbons!

The Gutsy Gibbon repos have opened! Myself and a few daring others are now using those repos, and prepare for the worst.

Fawndle the Feisty

Feisty is releasing tomorrow, and I and many others will be eagerly camped out on IRC, the forums, and Launchpad just itching to answer your questions, It's like open season for us.

If You haven't heard, living under a 3 ton stone, or a bear, or something Ubuntu 7.04, Codename Feisty Fawn Is going to be released tomorrow, and highlights a plethora of new software versions, and features. Many a blog has gone over the same old tired things coming in this new version, but I thought I would Highlight and explain some things that real normal user will experience, from a non technical standpoint (If I can even do that, I'm known for talking too technically!)

What you will notice first is how different the installation process is from a LiveCD, it may seem the same at first, and in fact have the same functionality, but in fact the Partitioner is way different, and is actually part of the installer now, which means it loads way faster, leaving you less time to configure, and more time letting it do it's own thing.

After installing ,and you boot your new Ubuntu Linux install, you will first notice how FAST the init (boot) processes are, On a medium-range computer it's been reported at taking under a minute, myself, it takes 30 seconds (with a ton of extra things starting, added by me.)

First thing you want to do? Surf the web? You have the brand new Firefox 2.0.0.3 with way less problems, far less memory leaking (better performance!), and an all around fancier interface, you'll be happy to check your favorite blogs, and check your mail all the time.

Then what... Watch some movies? Sure, with our new little front ends, if you don't have the right plugins to play something, it will tell you what to install, and even do it for you. How cool is that? For new users it's a common problem that they just cant find what they need to watch their anime, play their mp3s, and so on.

Oh but here's the REAL fun, you know all those fancy 3D effects you always saw on youtube videos, but never could have? Well now it's right at your fingertips, fire up Restricted-Manager and install the Proprietary drivers for your graphics card, then you can (most likely) easily flick on all of those effects from a simple interface called Desktop-Effects, It's easy, and you'll love it. Ubuntu comes with a light touch edition of compiz, where as you can do a lot more with the official releases of Beryl of compiz (soon to be merging anyway), you will find as a new user the few effects this provides are fun, and non obtrusive.

Many other notable things include:
-A new version of Gaim (Now Pidgin)
-A new version of the Gnome suite
-Open Office 2.2, even neater, and easier to use
-SODOKU (hehe)

That's about it for my quick once over of the new release, again I didn't get into the more technical aspects, but I did cover a good amount of what a new user will notice (compared to Edgy Eft and possibly Dapper Drake, depending on what they switch from).

My Newest Computer! How could I have forgotten?

I didn't post it in that last run, and I really feel like driving my blog points up to highscore, so I'll post it separately! Ages ago I was working on my new computer, only had the case for about a year.. Doesn't that just make you cry? Well I finished it!

-MSI K8N Neo4-f MoBo
-AMD64 Athlon 3700+ San Diego core
-Biostar nVidia 7300GT 256mb
-80gb SomeBrand Hard Drive
-1,024mb ram (Okay, you got me... I wanted to make it seem large)
-CD/DVD everything burner

all of that and peripherals total up so far to about 700$, just an estimate. Pretty fun eh?

Enter

After a long silence, I finally come back, Decided I wanted to get back into the blogging game, for whatever reason. There isn't a ton to catch you up on, I've been doing the same things as always, still using Feisty.

The Ubuntu Developer Summit is Neigh! Have you posted your specs yet? If not, get on it, times about up =].

In other news, I'm going out for Ubuntu Member, _nothing official yet_ but, I have support of a few people, and I really think I can make it happen. I'm taking it slow, I don't want to get ahead of myself in any way.

I don't have much more in the way of life news, I'm a little worried about school things lately... I'm sure it will work out.

Here's To Gutsy Gibbon, can't wait for UDS To kick off, I'm not close to important enough to go, but I have some inside contact, and will be following gobby, will post here as things develop =]

I'm now on the UbuntuForums Beginners Team! I sort of took lead of the Launchpad side of the team, though this isn't directly the forums, duh, we decided a meeting or two ago that we want to fan out a little more, since we're so large already. We're also electing leaders of the various divisions during the next meeting; The Four Points:
1) IRC (Our Channel, ubuntuforums, etc.)
2) The Forums (Duh =])
3) Launchpad (The Answers section, for ubuntu)
4) Wiki

We might in fact be merging with other teams, or sort of taking them under wing, or the other way around.

OH, More life news, I'm becoming a bit of an eBay whore, I in the past 3 days have bought about 5 different anime titles for about 50$ pretty fancy eh? Not particularly...

-Howl's Moving Castle
-Cowboy Bebop, Full import with english subs
-Avatar Book 1
-Avatar Book 2 (I KNOW this and the last aren't anime)
-Ghost in the Shell (1st Season) Still bidding, nice and low too