[PLUG] Gutsy

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I just finished an upgrade to Gutsy on my "kitchen" laptop.  It went 
flawlessly, and I now have a MythTV frontend there too.  (It works, but 
this laptop is an old Latitude P3 with 512M RAM--a tad slow for TV.)  If 
I have any complaint about the upgrade, it's that it kept stopping to 
ask if I wanted to overwrite various modified config files.  Of course I 
appreciate that, but you can't just fire and forget, you have to babysit.

I love that you can now drag&drop "buttons" in the task bar to reorder 
them.  Being the creature of habit that I am, that's a critical feature. 
 Oh, and TuxPaint has some new brushes and a better organized "stamps" 
tool, which my 3.5yo likes.  I don't have any hardware new enough to use 
the new eye-candy, which usually just annoys me anyway.

But the really interesting thing is that this laptop is old and has no 
working CD ROM.  So the initial install in Fall of 2006 was via a Debian 
netinst floppy set which I hacked in mid-stream to install Dapper 
instead.  I then later upgraded Dapper to Feisty (which required an 
intermediate upgrade to Edgy IIRC).  Now I'm running Gutsy.  And it 
just...works.  Try that with an RPM based system.  Or a non-Linux 
system... :-)  (How does Solaris do with that?  I've never tried.)

:-)
JP
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