More Gutsy
Further to this.
The Compiz bug where titlebars go AWOL still seems to be present, but I’ve narrowed it down some. It only happens with maximised windows. The reason I only noticed it with Firefox for a while is that Firefox is the one thing I typically maximise.
Otherwise, things continue to work well. I’ve finally got my T|X syncing to Evolution in a reasonable manner, which is something I was never able to get working on Feisty. Not that I particularly like Evolution as a PIM.
My one criticism of Palm support on Ubuntu right now would be that there’s no easy way to install things to a Palm via the GUI. The only way I can find to do it is by running gpilot-install-file -l file.pdb to queue the install and then do a sync. It’d be lovely if the GPilot kit included a simple GUI that can be associated with PDB/PRC files.
In other news I’m about to start trialling Ubuntu LTS as a replacement for FreeBSD at work. We use FreeBSD for network-infrastructure type jobs, like firewalls and SOCKS gateways. Ubuntu is a whole lot easier to keep updated so I’m going to fool around with ucarp on it under VMware and see how that goes.
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Replacing good, honest BSD boxes with PenguinOS? The horror, the horror!
“Replacing” is probably the wrong word. More like “as we build stuff into the future I’d rather do it on Ubuntu LTS, if it pans out”.
Updating FreeBSD is a pain in the arse. Updating Ubuntu is “apt-get install update; apt-get install upgrade; optionally reboot if it was a kernel update”.
There are ways to make FreeBSD less a pain in the arse than it is when you take the naive approach, but it’s still painful.
Why Ubuntu specifically? I prefer Debian to the others, and Ubuntu is Debian with a company you can buy support contracts from. The only reason we can get away with FreeBSD right now is that those machines are management-invisible.
Oh, I’m just taking my required stab at linux. I tend to lean down the Cisco path for anything that has to be supportable - not only can you get a contract, but one can actually find Cisco people around reasonably easily.
Did you try jpilot? gpilot I found unspeakably horrible, kpilot barely, jpilot’s lovely.
Not on Gutsy, at least not yet. I tried it on Feisty and had some difficulty convincing gpilot to sod off sufficiently to allow JPilot access to the device.
And of course you can’t remove the gnome-pilot packages because that kills ubuntu-desktop…