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Re: Early adopters to 8.10?

 

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Ted Wood <ted.l.wood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> First off, I'm new so just a brief intro for everyone. I've been using
> Ubuntu on and off since 2005 starting with 5.04 and mostly just played
> with it, never really tried it as a primary operating system until the
> fall of 2006 since when I started college and installed 6.10 on my
> desktop at my dorm. Since then I've upgraded with every new release and
> I also dual boot it (work requires me to have Windows) on my laptop and
> use it about 90% of the time there. I've been cycling since the summer
> between my Junior and Senior year, I think that puts it around Summer
> '05ish, of high school. However, since I started college I lost touch
> with my riding group and really just use my bike for my short commute to
> work these days. Glad to see there's finally a group of people with
> interests outside of computers to talk to that also know Ubuntu for
> once, so I look forward to reading what people have to say now and in
> the future and hopefully contributing a little where I can as well.
>
> So, I was just wondering. How many of you guys (and gals maybe?) are
> early adopters of the 8.10 release of Ubuntu? I have it installed in a
> virtual machine and it seems pretty good, but I've heard issues and if
> anyone has a story to tell, maybe state your opinions or experiences
> with it thus far.
>
> Take care everyone,
> Ted
>

Hi,

Suffice to say I share a love of cycling, but that's probably what
drew you, humble reader, to this list in the first place :)

Anyway, I run 8.10 on my production desktop at work. The company I
work for produces software that runs off a Linux platform so it's
always useful to run our code through a newer system, especially in
terms of making sure GCC still compiles the code!

My biggest outstanding issue with it is the lack of fglrx compiling on
the troublesome ATI card I have, otherwise it's behaved fine.

Regards,
Tomasz



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