How's Breezy Doing?

[XDevHald]

It's been a few months since I have ACTUALLY been here, so I decided to make a small thread to get feedback from the users to see what they think of Breezy so far. Now I am probably not aware of it's being out complete, or maybe it's not complete and running in beta still :roll:

Give me your updates and likings of this :)

[poofyhairguy]

I like the fonts and the new GUIs. I dislike that things randomly close on me and bittornado doesn't work.

[UbuWu]

Love it :grin:

Especially usplash and add/remove programs (oh and sound working without problems).

[aysiu]

The bootup is very slick-looking, but honestly I prefer the verbose white text on black screen from Hoary. The add/remove programs dialogue is cool. There's also a GUI for editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Streaming video worked for Firefox (after I added the appropriate codecs)--I had some trouble with this in Hoary.

On the downside, I had a couple of freeze-ups that were unrecoverable, especially when I was trying to add my library of MP3s to Rhythmbox, which is now appropriately labeled "Rhythmbox Music Player" instead of just the mysterious "Music Player" of Hoary.

Overall, I'm impressed. Things seem to be faster in Hoary. The click-response and scrolling seem better.

[Lovechild]

The bootup is very slick-looking, but honestly I prefer the verbose white text on black screen from Hoary. The add/remove programs dialogue is cool. There's also a GUI for editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Streaming video worked for Firefox (after I added the appropriate codecs)--I had some trouble with this in Hoary.

On the downside, I had a couple of freeze-ups that were unrecoverable, especially when I was trying to add my library of MP3s to Rhythmbox, which is now appropriately labeled "Rhythmbox Music Player" instead of just the mysterious "Music Player" of Hoary.

Overall, I'm impressed. Things seem to be faster in Hoary. The click-response and scrolling seem better.

What's so wrong about labelling programs simply as "Mail" "Music player" "Porn viewer" "Movie player"

Of course the real fix would be moving to task based interface.

[stoffe]

What's so wrong about labelling programs simply as "Mail" "Music player" "Porn viewer" "Movie player"

Of course the real fix would be moving to task based interface.
Since there are several programs available and they can be quite different, it might be nice to actually know which program you'll get. Or you could go all dictator and decide which is the one true application for everything. Also, I have two identical entries "CD Player" right now, but they are two different programs. One of them is also a ripper, for instance. Confusing, I'd much rather have names.

I've nothing against task based interfaces though, but personally I would like to have both in that case. One menu where the default app for all common tasks can be under "Internet" and "Mail", and the usual ones in another menu beside it so I can try others out. That would be kinda cool.

Otherwise, Breezy is looking real sharp, although it has me on its toes with potential breakagae around each corner. I am really looking forward to the stable, released version because I think this is the version that will be good enough to recommend to anyone without worrying about problems. It's very cool. =)

[aysiu]

What's so wrong about labelling programs simply as "Mail" "Music player" "Porn viewer" "Movie player"

Of course the real fix would be moving to task based interface. This is just my personal opinion, of course--you don't have to agree with me--but I think it offers a bit of transparency. If someone, for example, doesn't like Rhythmbox, she can realize quite instantly that the music player is called Rhythmbox and can try out another music player if she so desires. Note: Breezy doesn't merely call the player "Rhythmbox"; it calls it "Rhythmbox Music Player," which I view as the best of both worlds. It tells you the name of the product and what the product is/does.

[tom-ubuntu]

What's so wrong about labelling programs simply as "Mail" "Music player" "Porn viewer" "Movie player"

Of course the real fix would be moving to task based interface.
For a standart user this is much easier. He has no clue, what "Rhythmbox" is. He wants to listen to his music, so he starts up the "Music Player". Advanced user can still edit their menues.

[aysiu]

For a standart user this is much easier. He has no clue, what "Rhythmbox" is. He wants to listen to his music, so he starts up the "Music Player". Advanced user can still edit their menues. Which is why in Breezy it's called Rhythmbox Music Player, not just Rhythmbox.

[sal]

i just tryed the colony 4 breezy-live-i386 on my system.
Much Much better!!

I started to mess around and decided to open synaptic and see what the version number was for ALSA because of all the problems i have had with 5.04 and system sounds. i wanted to check and see because i had read that breezy was going to have the sound "situation" fixed with alsa (i think synaptic listed it at 1.09a/b) and thankfully it was fixed.

i switched fully to *nix just a few months ago after hearing about ubuntu and trying/liking it. i always looked opon 5.04 as having the potential but not fully being ready for the avarage user yet. but i think breezy will be the one that i can tell non-tech people to give a try to.

i do alot of system setups on the side and customers always ask about linux but i have to tell them they are not ready for linux yet. most of them cant even burn a cd of data without help. but i think with breezy i might be able to install it (dual-boot) along side XP on alot of my customers machines and eventualy make them full converts.

i just hope that ubuntu sticks around for a long time.
it has this feel to it thats hard to discribe but it just makes me feel like this is the one distro i never get bored with. its the one that when i think about it, i just feel it will be able to make the avarage home user not scared of linux. it just "fits/feels right" in some way.

in the past 3 years i have tryed suse, mandrake, lindows (now linspire i think), red hat, debian, and a bunch others. the thing about the debian based distros is once i started with the apt-get packaging system i could not go back to the other ways. ubuntu will be the one for me!

as far as what i got out of my time with breezy-live, i think that all they have accomplished with it in the past 6 months time only shows what we have to look foward to in another 6 months. i would say give it another year and a half and ubuntu will surpass windows in all aspects. this i trule feel.

i can't F_ing wait untill breezy hits Gold. i so want to install it NOW!!

[XDevHald]

i just hope that ubuntu sticks around for a long time.
it has this feel to it thats hard to discribe but it just makes me feel like this is the one distro i never get bored with. its the one that when i think about it, i just feel it will be able to make the avarage home user not scared of linux. it just "fits/feels right" in some way.

Agreed, and no it will not be a fade away distro, that I can say will be no mistake :)

[sal]

Agreed, and no it will not be a fade away distro, that I can say will be no mistake :)

yes, i read about the cash shuttleworth has put into the ubuntu org.
this is why i stick with it.
heres a guy who has a boat-load of cash and wakes up one day and thinks "let me get this ubuntu up and running" that just shows he is dedicated and also all the programers are dedicated to.

i lay awake at night longing for the october release.

[majikstreet]

How do we upgrade?
Do you think it'll break our systems?

I want it... I don't want to kill my system though..

majikstreet

[sal]

How do we upgrade?
Do you think it'll break our systems?

I want it... I don't want to kill my system though..

majikstreet

im in the same boat as you, i don't want my system messed up.
im going to wait untill the preview release at the end of the month and then i think ill do a "just in case" backup and then ill update my sources.list and do the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

[escuchamezz]

gf

[Knome_fan]

sorry to curb your enthusiasm but people have been saying this about linux distros for years...
And were right in so many ways...

[aysiu]

im in the same boat as you, i don't want my system messed up.
im going to wait untill the preview release at the end of the month and then i think ill do a "just in case" backup and then ill update my sources.list and do the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Here's what I did. I don't know if you have enough hard drive space for it, but it worked for me.

I had a separate partition that I installed Breezy to.
Then, I copied over some key settings from my home folder (.mozilla, .mozill-thunderbird, .opera) and some .tar.gz's I downloaded from Gnome-look. Then, I just set up Breezy. Now I set Grub to default to Breezy on boot-up, and I use my other old Hoary partition for just playing around (installing and uninstalling programs, toying with XFCE, etc.).

[-vince-]

yew really nice

[N'Jal]

Breezy didn't like my X settings and screwed my modem. If the alcatel speed touch modem woud be supported i would use it but since this PC in net critical and breezy didn't connect i had to reformat with no logs or anything.

[psychicdragon]

I dist-upgraded last week. My X settings got messed up, but it was easy to fix. The only outstanding problem is that nvidia-glx doesn't work currently.

[N'Jal]

Yeah i reconfigured X and that did work but the modem was a real problem

[poofyhairguy]

I dist-upgraded last week. My X settings got messed up, but it was easy to fix. The only outstanding problem is that nvidia-glx doesn't work currently.

Does for me. Right now.