[Ubuntu-SG] Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released

[Falchion Edge]

Hi Harris,

Well my palm Treo650 does sync the basic 4 (Contacts, Notes, Tasks,
Calendar) pretty well using Kpilot/Jpilot. The problem is some programs I
use which are Palm/Windows only, such as SplashID, which is password manager
which automatically updates on sync. I have been slowly migrating my data
into Revelation on Ubuntu, but I miss being able to have it auto-update on
sync.

As for my ipod, most of the tracks where copied over using windows, and
while Rhythmbox does fine in reading the database, using it to copy new
tracks into the ipod seems to mess up the songs that are already in there. I
suspect if I was to totally wipe out my ipod of tracks and reload them from
Rhythmbox, I wouldn't have this problem but that seems pretty heavy-handed.

As for new features in Feisty:
-migration-assistant: I think this quite the cool feature. I know most of us
wouldn't really need it, but I was quite impressed with Mozilla Firefox and
it's migration of stuff from IE for example, so if Ubuntu can get something
that works as easily and fast as that, we would be better able to win over
more users, much like what Firefox has been able to do.

-New Gnome: Always good to have. Tomboy improvements, Disk Usage Analyzer,
new Deskbar and Seahorse.

-Network Manager: Got to see it "official"

-New Kernel: Also good to have just for the little hardware quirks. For
example I still can't get my USB keyboard to fully turn off all power on
shutdown.

-New Xorg: Gets better with each version. Highly awaited.

-New stable versions of stuff in Main and Universe: Also always good to
have, to scratch that "Latest Software!" itch.


Kind Regards,
Colin "Falchion"


On 3/28/07, Harris Ngan <in_flu_ence at msn.com> wrote:
>
>
> Welcome to the club. I have the same temptation to move to feisty but I
> shall wait till the 19th April. Just some doubt from myself. Is there going
> to be more proprietary drivers/codecs included in the new version since the
> different partnership that Ubuntu has taken up?
>
> Falchion: Does ubuntu not working well with your palm (Kpilot, Jpilot?)
> and Ipod (amarmok, banshee etc)? I can't say for sure but it seems to work
> with my palm out of the box (Sony Clie) and I think I got my ipod sync as
> well. I don't play games though so i don't say dual boot is no good.
>
> Anyway, shall we somehow do a mass mailing to the mailing list to make
> sure everyone are aware of the new and cool features of ubuntu?:P
>
> Harris
>
>
>
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