so, how many of you are upgrading to feisty soon?

[Polygon]

the title asks it all.

myself, i started the torrent download (very fast!) this morning and have been seeding all day. I will install feisty this weekend (just cause i have to backup my home dir and all that stuff)

how about you guys?

[Seal8]

Downloaded torrent yesterday from some college with no problem. Feisty Fawn download went fine too.
I also seeded for about 5 hrs yesterday.
I'm new to Feisty Fawn. I burned it to a DVD and ran the program. I'm not quite ready to install. A little nervous. :)
I only have a 80GB HD and a 40GB external HD for back up. Just haven't thought this through yet. Would like to learn more about it.
One thing I thought I read that it accepts Ff bookmarks. I guess you have to do an install for that feature to work?
Also is there anywhere I can learn about the security issues with Feisty Fawn compared to Win XP? What would I need to do to secure Feisty Fawn? Anti Virus, Firewall, etc.
Thanks
Setup:
Win XP SP2 all updates
Vaio 80GB HD Notebook
1GB RAM
Security:
NOD32, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Sunbelt Kerio, Rootkit Revealer, Ice Sword, HijackThis, Sandboxie, TrueCrypt,
Spyware Blaster.

[Emx]

Torrents were crazy yesterday, and are really fast today too...

[bribri124]

Instead of downloading the image, which I will do soon enough, I did the upgrade through update manager. Although it took me almost 14 hours to complete the upgrade, I only did it because I did not want to reconfigure several packages (lazy???). The only problem I had was the title bar missing when running beryl. I have that fixed now, and it is posted at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=389390. Other than that, no other problems found. Feisty seems to be running somewhat smoother, but I will have to play around some more.

[tech_monkee]

i'll probably do a dualboot today on my lappy. i have edgy 6.10 configured nicely but since it was all learning and testing for me i know that my "cleanliness" of the system is not as good as i'd like it to be.

looks like i'll have to redo the bcom 4311 drivers with ndiswrapper again for fiesty :(

[indigoshift]

I have a test machine at home that I use to try out new stuff before doing so with my main computer, and the upgrade from 6.10 to 7.04 didn't work.

This is because of a directory that needed to be empty that wasn't. I thought I'd written it down somewhere, but apparently I've lost the note. Anyway, it was because of a file that Opera created when I installed it on the test machine. Opera put this file into the directory that was supposed to be empty, and the upgrade exited with an error about halfway through.

This made the machine unbootable, so I had to install 7.04 from scratch.

I really like 7.04, but I have Opera on my main (6.06) machine, and won't be upgrading that any time soon as a result of my experiences on the test machine. I mean, I'll do it eventually. Just not right now. :)

[Technophobia]

Fresh install and 1 problem. My ati card started freaking out with resolutions above 1024x768. So I ran some random console commands and now it seems to work. mmm 1680x1050 is so nice.

[steveneddy]

Upgraded today after work - took about 1 hour for download and install - seems a little faster and smoother - kinda - but beryl acts funny - kinda choppy - been looking to see of someone else has had this problem - other than that, looks pretty good


System76 Serval Performance laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 Gig RAM and nVidia

-SE

[rs3]

Downloaded torrent yesterday from some college with no problem. Feisty Fawn download went fine too.
I also seeded for about 5 hrs yesterday.
I'm new to Feisty Fawn. I burned it to a DVD and ran the program. I'm not quite ready to install. A little nervous. :)
I only have a 80GB HD and a 40GB external HD for back up. Just haven't thought this through yet. Would like to learn more about it.
One thing I thought I read that it accepts Ff bookmarks. I guess you have to do an install for that feature to work?
Also is there anywhere I can learn about the security issues with Feisty Fawn compared to Win XP? What would I need to do to secure Feisty Fawn? Anti Virus, Firewall, etc.
Thanks
Setup:
Win XP SP2 all updates
Vaio 80GB HD Notebook
1GB RAM
Security:
NOD32, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Sunbelt Kerio, Rootkit Revealer, Ice Sword, HijackThis, Sandboxie, TrueCrypt,
Spyware Blaster.

i know nothing of ff (fantasy football, right?) bookmarks, personally...any of you guys know? i would imagine that if all else fails, you could install a windows copy of firefox (or another browser that is compatible) over WINE and run it in ubuntu effectively.

as far as security goes, that's one area where you can basically rest easy. the suite of software you have cooking right there is quite openly unnecessary--gnu/linux plays host to a severe minimum of exploits and viruses, partly because it retains a very small share of the desktop market and primarily because it is built with security as a great priority.

the only security measures i'd recommend to you are Firestarter (a small firewall application and iptables front-end) and perhaps a NoScript extension for firefox. otherwise, running ubuntu leaves you with a significant lot less to worry about.

if you take the plunge (and i highly recommend it) you can always come to us or to anyone on the forum with questions. and if you need any further convincing, let us know. ;)

[banditti]

I did the reinstall. (carry over superstition from my windows days) Also why I missed the meeting.

It shuts down quicker. I am having trouble getting beryl to work right. Over all, not bad.

[emrextreme]

I already have upgraded and no such troubles so far. It is way better than 6.10. Also, ordered the free cd's.

[azteech]

Have not upgraded as of yet. Being on dial-up, will take way to long, even with torrent, to download the iso. So have ordered the cd's and will load up feisty when they come in.

[Polygon]

i finally upgraded.

for me, the dapper to edgy update through the update manager really fed over my computer, got random fsck errors, x wouldent start, so i decided to just backup my home and do a fresh install

its pretty nice. Starts up quicker, the artwork is cooler basically everywhere, shuts down faster, seems quite a bit quicker. Im liking it

but the two bugs that i was hoping to get fixed in feisty were not:

suspend to ram and hibernate, when you come back, alsa dies and you get no sound until you restart your comp

and the volume multimedia keys on my keyboard control the wrong sound channel, there is no way to configure which sound channel the multimedia keys control so its basically useless.

[IanMcewen]

Did the upgrade yesterday on Desktop and Laptop through Update Manager. Took me three hours, no problems except that I had to re-install xscreensaver.

Looks good, too... I like the new framebuffer :)

[sloggerkhan]

Been on feisty since Herd 4 or 5.

[DX 00]

I upgraded one of my laptops last week. Upgrade went almost perfect, few very small problems but I was really impressed as to how well it went.

[trmentry]

I just got Feisty installed on my main machine and love it. Had a bit of a pain getting Divx files to stream on the network but figured that out soon enough.

I'm still tweaking things and getting my session the way I like it. :)

Now to figure out Wine/Cedega to get games working (although I still have Windows on another drive).

[tekguy]

I just set up a multiboot system on my dv9000t. XP, Vista, Feisty. I am very impressed with Feisty. My wireless card was picked up without issue. That is probably the biggest issue that has kept me from running Linux on my laptop until now. I'm lovin' it!