Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft released

raublekick · 10-26-2006, 09:57 AM

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyAnnouncement

yeah! johnny, give me a hi-five bro! WOO! CAN I GET A MANBARK?? UHH!

testtubebaby · 10-26-2006, 11:51 AM

what is this geeky shit?

thecreeper · 10-28-2006, 09:53 PM

quiet, tubesteakbaby.

rauble came over and helped me install ubuntu last night. this is my first time alone in a linux environment. kinda scary.

johnny · 10-29-2006, 03:39 PM

got edgy fired up today. it's nice. i like upstart, and gnome 2.16 is alright. (still holding out for kde4..)

raublekick · 10-29-2006, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnny

got edgy fired up today. it's nice. i like upstart, and gnome 2.16 is alright. (still holding out for kde4..)

right on. KDE 4 is going to make it very hard to choose an DE.

johnny · 10-29-2006, 07:50 PM

i've done a bit of googling on upstart, but there doesn't seem to be much out there.. or on the ubuntu forums or wiki. any idea how to make it more verbose while booting up?? i thought maybe hitting f2 during boot would do it, but no such luck.

raublekick · 10-29-2006, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnny

i've done a bit of googling on upstart, but there doesn't seem to be much out there.. or on the ubuntu forums or wiki. any idea how to make it more verbose while booting up?? i thought maybe hitting f2 during boot would do it, but no such luck.

i've been wondering the same, but no luck finding anything

johnny · 10-31-2006, 08:13 PM

aha! in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a line:

Code:

# defoptions=quiet splash

remove the word "quiet" (root privileges required to do the edit), and run

Code:

sudo update-grub

(credit goes to the person who responded to my thread on ubuntu forums..)

sharkz · 11-01-2006, 07:59 PM

Not planning to upgrade yet, unless I find a convenient spare 80-gig or so drive to back up onto first. Based on slashdot's story about messy upgrades. Unless you guys can debunk that.

johnny · 11-01-2006, 10:23 PM

i would recommend a backup + fresh install, rather than doing the upgrade with aptitude; however, that's purely based on having heard of problems that other people have had. i can't really speak from experience, 'cause whenever i install a new version i tend to format and start fresh because i don't usually have much data to backup/lose. so it's just more clean to start from scratch...

raublekick · 11-01-2006, 11:39 PM

i don't know what all the complaints about upgrading are all about. was using apt-get or aptitude or update-manager ever the suggested way of upgrading? no. did they advertise that it would work much better this time? no. were there major changes with this release that would drastically hinder upgrading this way? YES!

raublekick · 11-12-2006, 09:32 PM

using Xubuntu:

http://entropy.good-evil.net/xubuntuscreen.png

sharkz · 11-20-2006, 12:59 PM

Considering, when I can obtain afformentioned hard drive to move my home dir to, dual booting either Edgy, Arch or Dream with XP.

(I'm pretty settled in with linux but I find myself missing, oddly enough, stuff like being able to reliably direct connect on AIM.)

johnny · 11-20-2006, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raublekick

using Xubuntu:

http://entropy.good-evil.net/xubuntuscreen.png

xfce is wonderful. i've stuck with gnome so far, but i'm not 100% sure why. i guess i just wanted to scope out v2.16, and forgot to get back to something which i like a bit better afterwards.

as i've said a few times before: still waiting on kde4!

rauble, your computer is named luigi, and mine is littlemac. nintendo connection! btw, is that xmms yer running with a fancy skin, or something that looks an awful lot like xmms??

johnny · 11-20-2006, 05:36 PM

well i think i've been given the inspiration i need to go back to running xfce.. i'll do that later tonight

raublekick · 11-20-2006, 08:17 PM

johnny, the player is Audacious. It's a fork of the now dead BMP which was a fork of XMMS... so yeah, it's kinda like XMMS.

johnny · 11-21-2006, 06:02 AM

is it better than xmms? i gave up on xmms a while back..

johnny · 11-21-2006, 08:17 PM

i decided to give beep media player a shot, rather than audacious. i like beep alot.

raublekick · 11-21-2006, 09:10 PM

so it looks like the only thing i really miss from Gnome is gnome-volume-manager. Thunar doesn't automount my SD reader, but ivman does. If i use ivman, i can't unmount things... grrr...

johnny · 11-30-2006, 07:46 PM

i'll now contribute an xfce screenshot:
http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~jrmatth1/images/screen.jpg

i can't seem to find the beep-media-player icon in my system.. so that's why that odd black and grey speaker icon is in my panel. (you can see the proper bmp icon in the window list..)

10-26-2006, 09:57 AM	#1
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft released https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyAnnouncement yeah! johnny, give me a hi-five bro! WOO! CAN I GET A MANBARK?? UHH! __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

10-26-2006, 11:51 AM	#2
testtubebaby Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 631	what is this geeky shit? __________________ use this link, buy from threadless, earn me points, keep the cycle moving...

10-28-2006, 09:53 PM	#3
thecreeper Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 2,330	quiet, tubesteakbaby. rauble came over and helped me install ubuntu last night. this is my first time alone in a linux environment. kinda scary. __________________ good-evil.net - ahh, wade boggs...goes down smooth.

10-31-2006, 08:13 PM	#8
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	aha! in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a line: Code: # defoptions=quiet splash remove the word "quiet" (root privileges required to do the edit), and run Code: sudo update-grub (credit goes to the person who responded to my thread on ubuntu forums..)

11-01-2006, 11:39 PM	#11
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	i don't know what all the complaints about upgrading are all about. was using apt-get or aptitude or update-manager ever the suggested way of upgrading? no. did they advertise that it would work much better this time? no. were there major changes with this release that would drastically hinder upgrading this way? YES! __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

10-29-2006, 03:39 PM	#4
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	got edgy fired up today. it's nice. i like upstart, and gnome 2.16 is alright. (still holding out for kde4..)

10-29-2006, 07:50 PM	#6
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	i've done a bit of googling on upstart, but there doesn't seem to be much out there.. or on the ubuntu forums or wiki. any idea how to make it more verbose while booting up?? i thought maybe hitting f2 during boot would do it, but no such luck.

11-01-2006, 07:59 PM	#9
sharkz Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: omg PA crew Posts: 389	Not planning to upgrade yet, unless I find a convenient spare 80-gig or so drive to back up onto first. Based on slashdot's story about messy upgrades. Unless you guys can debunk that.

11-01-2006, 10:23 PM	#10
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	i would recommend a backup + fresh install, rather than doing the upgrade with aptitude; however, that's purely based on having heard of problems that other people have had. i can't really speak from experience, 'cause whenever i install a new version i tend to format and start fresh because i don't usually have much data to backup/lose. so it's just more clean to start from scratch...

11-12-2006, 09:32 PM	#12
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	using Xubuntu: http://entropy.good-evil.net/xubuntuscreen.png __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

11-20-2006, 12:59 PM	#13
sharkz Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: omg PA crew Posts: 389	Considering, when I can obtain afformentioned hard drive to move my home dir to, dual booting either Edgy, Arch or Dream with XP. (I'm pretty settled in with linux but I find myself missing, oddly enough, stuff like being able to reliably direct connect on AIM.)

11-20-2006, 05:36 PM	#15
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	well i think i've been given the inspiration i need to go back to running xfce.. i'll do that later tonight

11-20-2006, 08:17 PM	#16
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	johnny, the player is Audacious. It's a fork of the now dead BMP which was a fork of XMMS... so yeah, it's kinda like XMMS. __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

11-21-2006, 06:02 AM	#17
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	is it better than xmms? i gave up on xmms a while back..

11-21-2006, 08:17 PM	#18
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	i decided to give beep media player a shot, rather than audacious. i like beep alot.

11-21-2006, 09:10 PM	#19
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	so it looks like the only thing i really miss from Gnome is gnome-volume-manager. Thunar doesn't automount my SD reader, but ivman does. If i use ivman, i can't unmount things... grrr... __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

11-30-2006, 07:46 PM	#20
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	i'll now contribute an xfce screenshot: http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~jrmatth1/images/screen.jpg i can't seem to find the beep-media-player icon in my system.. so that's why that odd black and grey speaker icon is in my panel. (you can see the proper bmp icon in the window list..)