I just finished upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10, code named “Edgy Eft”. On the surface, it looks no different from 6.06 (Dapper) but Gnome certainly feels a lot faster. Startup is still a bit slow, but mostly because I have a lot of startup programs (Apache, MySQL, and Postgres). Firefox 2.0, Gnucash 2.0.1, OpenOffice 2.0.4, Mono 1.1.17, Beagle, F-Spot, Tomboy, and Gnome 2.16 were all very compelling reasons for an upgrade.

Upgrade went smoothly and it was all done via the Update Manager GUI. A few minor niggles to the upgrade:

• 3D acceleration is broken again for my ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card. This time, it appears there is no workaround as the kernel drm module flat out refuses to load.
• I don’t like the new “silent” usplash where only a progress bar is shown. I liked the Dapper version better where you get to see what’s happening.
• Firefox 2.0 appears to have some issues with regards to the Flash plugin. Hopefully this does not have an effect on the upcoming Flash 9 player for Linux.

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