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Originally posted by: KF
Bump for the new Ubuntu, Edgy Eft, now available at Frozentech.

I was not that thrilled with Ubuntu in the early version I tried before, but I'm becoming a convert I think.

Although the version number (6.10) may not seem to be much different (6.10 versus 6.01), that's because the versioning is not by normal programming practice. The 6 is for the year 2006. The 10 is for the 10th month. What the Ubuntu group is doing is reworking and cleaning up linux to suit a more casual computer user than has been attracted to linux previously, and doing a dang nice job of it IMO. But do NOT expect that maintaining your OS yourself will be as convenient as Windows.

yep, i'm on and liking 6.06.1. i'll try 6.10.

i'd also been waiting for fc6 thoe so it might be a toss up... but i have yet to try.

 

[KF]

Bump time again. It seems to get a few hundred looks each time.

A lot of updated distos at Frozentech

Opensuse 10.2 is available. (I only have Opensuse 10.1) Although Suse has not been as comprehensible as Ubuntu, it is gorgeously classy (perfect fonts and font sizes, customized program skins, customized icons), and it does work smoothly once you puzzle through the hard parts. Supposedly 10.2 has worked on the software updater, which was almost incomprehensible; the only way to figure out what something would do was to try it and see. The neat thing about suse updates is that they are differential patches; they are a fraction of the size of the complete packages they update, particularly significant on slow connections. Ubuntu and Fedora replace the whole package with a full updated one; If the original file was 11 megabytes (1 hour), so is the update.

If you are sick of Windows, or sick of waiting for the next Windows, you might have fun taking a peek at Fedora Core 6. In the recent updates, Beryl showed up. It's a 3D desktop (ala Vista) and it "just worked" for me. It worked in full, and fast, on a very low end ATi card, a 9550, which would be nearly worthless for any 3D game within the last 2 years. I didn't have to follow a "How To" web page and edit configuration files, like you have to do for Suse 10.1 and Ubuntu. It has a lot of cute visuals, and some of them even make juggling multiple windows slightly more convenient. The windows squirm engagingly like flubber when you drag them. Four desktops rotate on a cube in full 3D to switch desktops. The whole desktop of windows can shrink (zoom-out) and self-separate temporarily so you can find and select what was hidden behind others. Windows can be translucent so you can tell what is behind. You can zoom-in any window. Beryl is not finished and is still a little buggy (nothing serious) -it is only version .13- and is not officially supported, but it is so unbelievably cool that when it fails, nothing locks up; it just quits to the stock, non-3D desktop with all the windows and toolbars intact. Wow. I saw it, but I don't believe it. The Beryl project says they want your ideas and your input.

Frozentech has a "blog" page for new stock and upcomming things. announcements