Ubuntu 9.10: Out, and Hot
Yes, it’s out. Took me 12 hours to download today, but it’s done.
Noteables:
- Firefox 3.5 (woo!)
- OpenOffice 3.1
- Out of the box support for my Creative X-Fi finally
- Sound no longer dies after coming back from Hibernate (woo!)
- Mouse’s “Back” button now works in Nautilus (woo!)
- Sexier startup
- Seems to have sped up my shabby notebook a lot from 9.04
All in all I am very pleased. None of my precious Firefox plugins were broken in the upgrade and I’m happy to finally be on board with 3.5, it seems much faster and lighter.
Slight issues I’ve had:
- Search bar icons not showing up in the dropdown, but I fixed that via System->Preferences->Appearance->Interface->Show Icons in Menus. (source).
- My media files were also playing back in a strange blue hue which drove me nuts for a second but all it took was go into Movie Player, Edit->Preferences->Display, and reset the Hue value which was for some reason set all the way to the left.
- The new “Ubuntu Software Center” is great and all but I prefer the old style of Add/Remove Applications (with the star ratings), and I discovered how to bring that back by just installing “gnome-app-install” via Symantic, then it is to be found under System->Administration.
- My Conky also got a little quirked but I’ll figure it out.
Get 9.10 from System->Administration->Update manager
Or from here if you’re some kind of late adopter.
Then go get your free stickers.
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posted: 09 October 31
under: linux, productivity, software