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mhancoc7
November 26th, 2005, 02:21 PM
I have recently started using Kubuntu and have successfully upgraded to Breezy. I have everything working except usplash. I really like Breezy. Is there a list of the new features somewhere on the forum or could someone let me know what some of the differences are from Hoary. I tried to search the forum, but could not find what I was looking for.
Thanks in advance, Jereme :)

uberlinux
November 26th, 2005, 06:49 PM
bump, cause I wanna know too.

aysiu
November 26th, 2005, 07:39 PM
I don't know what official sources say, but I haven't found anything new in Breezy except errors and annoyances.

Adept is included as a package manager (which isn't that great).
Control Center becomes System Settings
New external media automatically open when you plug them in (instead of just mounting and sitting there)

That's all I noticed.

uberlinux
November 26th, 2005, 07:55 PM
New external media automatically open when you plug them in (instead of just mounting and sitting there)

That's all I noticed.
what sucks about that one is that it always does it when I put a CD in to burn something, it sends a window with an error to get in my way.

mhancoc7
November 27th, 2005, 04:14 AM
So far for my purposes Breezy is working just like Hoary. It does seem a bit more polished. It took me two days to do a dist-upgrade. I expected having to tweak somethings after the upgrade so that was not a big deal. I had to revert to a few packages to the Hoary release to get some things to work like my wireless and sound for lxdoom.

I like Breezy, I just don't see what all the hoopla was for over Breezy. I can't get usplash to work so for the most part I still feel like I am using Hoary. Which is good since I loved Hoary. I am not complaining about Breezy. I love it to, I just don't see that big of a difference.

God Bless, Jereme:)

erikpiper
November 27th, 2005, 04:25 AM
Am I the only one who got a noticeable performance increace?

If so- probably because my (Being replaced at the moment) main pc is running at 866 Mhz and has 256 Mb of ram...

There are more annoyances though :confused:

UbuWu
November 27th, 2005, 05:46 AM
It’s been six long months. But Ubuntu is back, and better than ever.

http://help.ubuntu.com/quicktour/C/quicktour.html

poofyhairguy
November 27th, 2005, 08:50 AM
For me it was a more stable Gnome. I know I am alone almost in that one.

bwog
November 27th, 2005, 05:41 PM
There are lots of updates ofcourse, eg office.

I am new and have run hoary only a short time, but I didnt have complaints about it. I dont have any trouble with breezy,

Slugger
November 27th, 2005, 08:23 PM
How about you just read the release notes that came with Ubuntu? Not that hard to figure out..

djlosch
November 27th, 2005, 08:55 PM
e17 installs in breezy in like 2 min.

apparently not so much in hoary.

erikpiper
November 27th, 2005, 09:11 PM
Really? What repos?

(Or link? I havent got around to it on breezy yet...)

yesplease
November 27th, 2005, 09:51 PM
@slugger: http://www.psychocats.net/linux/sources.php and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74990 good luck :)

ssam
November 27th, 2005, 10:24 PM
i like the new location bar in in nautilus, though i think it still needs this http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313877

also the option to burn an iso to a cd when you right click on it is good.

new version of various bits of software.

more stable kernel. hoary would sometimes not wake from sleep.

the gcc4 migration has not shown much speed increase yet, but it should do soon. it will save the devs a lot of work not having to do a gcc migration in the dapper cycle (4.0 -> 4.1 shouldn't be as difficult, but probably wont happen untill after dapper.)

similar with xorg. breezy is about half way to the modular tree in xorg7. the devs are currently moving to a fully modular tree in dapper (but i think it helps them that some of the work was done already.)

breezy was perhaps not as good as it should have been, due to a few upstream projects getting delayed (openoffice, firefox). but a lot of effort is going to make dapper a really excellent release.

mhancoc7
November 28th, 2005, 04:30 AM
Slugger:
How about you just read the release notes that came with Ubuntu? Not that hard to figure out..
No need to be rude. I did search the forums and read several different bits of info. I just wanted to see what others were finding to be different in Breezy.

yesplease:
@slugger: http://www.psychocats.net/linux/sources.php and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74990 good luck
Thanks for the links. I really appreciate them and will definitely check them out.

God Bless, Jereme