Feisty Fawn
Downloaded and did a clean install of Feisty Fawn on my T42p. Everything has gone smoothly out of the box — wireless, USB, hibernate, the works. The US package repositories are a bit sluggish at times, which is to be expected on the day of launch.
The system is more aggressive about telling you about Restricted Drivers:
In order for this computer to function properly, Ubuntu may be using driver software that cannot be supported.
Because the software is proprietary, it cannot easily be changed to fix any future problems.
In my case, the drivers in question are:
- ATI accelerated graphics driver
- Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)
I’m running the latter, but not the former, so I guess I’m only somewhat letting people down who believe in the One True Cause™.
The new wireless Gnome panel app is much improved. I particularly like the fact that you no longer have to provide your password in order to perform basic operations.
Python is now 2.5. Genshi is now available via apt-get. Bzr is now 0.15.0, and recommends that you upgrade your repositories. I wonder what the social implications are of that. Heck, my server is still on Dapper.
Firefox is still 2.0.0.3. Haven’t tried Thunderbird or VPN yet, but I don’t expect any surprises there.