Hello Dapper Drake! Been running “Dapper” for a couple of days now. So far so good. Nothing major has broken (yet) and all Breezy configs copied over without problems. I did start from a fresh Dapper Flight 3 CD ISO since in my experience that’s the path of least resistance when doing a stable to unstable switch in Ubuntu. I would definitely not recommend Dapper just yet, unless you have some special craving for the new goodies. New cool stuff so far include lighttpd , PostgreSQL 8.1 and XGL (w00t!!). Downside is that suspend/hibernate is still horribly broken for my Dell laptop and console switching is througly hosed (famous black screen problem). But I’m sticking with it.
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Cool!
I’m especially interested in the XGL stuff… since setting it up on breezy crashes the firefox flash plugin…
does the flash plugin work on Dapper with XGL?
XGL is indeed wickedly cool! I’ll try to post a writeup on it this weekend, stay tuned. Flash works perfectly with Firefox, even GL applications work with some tweaking! The only big downside so far is playing movies fullscreen is way too slow so I have to turn off compiz when tuning into Earl or Grey
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Meanwhile I managed to get Compiz running on my own laptop.. kewl! To bad it is really unstable, is yours workable?
WTF!? Is your catch-all somehow configure to post on your blog
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Spam posts are rampant. Typo does not have very good spam protection, at least the claimed "Spam protection" does not work at all for me. I have the latest Typo trunk running on my dev site, but it’s not much better. I’m really considering switching to WordPress or some other more mature piece of blogging software. Simple captcha’s would already go a long way.
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But back on topic: Compiz works quite well for me! I can use it all day long. The biggest downsides IMHO are the fact that compiz runs ate the same priority as all other tasks on the system, so if you’re doing some heavy compiling the UI experience becomes pathetic. That, and the fact that hardware accellerated video playout (Xvideo) support is not really there yet.
Oh, and the eye candy gets boring quite quickly too
I think compiz/Xgl are still a couple of months away from being really production ready. Some really smart people are spending time on it so catching up and surpassing OS X / Vista UI is at least conceivable again.</p>