Edgy is HOSED (initramfs?)

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 9/21/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/20/06, fmccormick at videotron.ca <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry but it's not hosed here. USPLASH still doesn't work....and the
> > double mounted icon problem still exists but other than that it seems
> > normal. On the other hand I personaly don't find EDGY all that exciting.
> > GNOME is pretty much what it's always been....with a few minor bells and
> > whistles.
> >
>
> I do find Edgy very exciting.
>
> First of all, fonts look extremely good, much better than Dapper or any
> other Linux distro I've ever used. I don't know if it's related to font
> smoothing, but I think it is related to the fonts itself since Arial still
> looks ugly.
>
> Second, there is upstart which makes booting Linux faster than using
> conventional init.
>
> Third, it's Firefox 2.0, and OpenOffice 2.0.4, and GNOME 2.16 (which is
> pretty much the same), the new kernels, NetworkManager which (for the very
> first time) works all the time, GRUB works when using Apple Boot Camp,
> suspend to disk works perfectly on MBP, the new artwork is awesome, and so
> on.
>
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I'm beginning to think that Edgy is for high profile machines. I can't even
use Xorg in Edgy.

I'm very happy about GNOME 2.16, but since I can't use it, my enthusiasm
gets killed everyday.
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