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After a couple of years of hosting my websites on a cheap, but slow host, I’vefinally taken the leap and moved to Dreamhost, and things certainly seem to be going well. This change has given me “an excuse” to start blogging again - we’ll see if I can keep it up this time! This blog will probably focus largely on Ubuntu or Wikimedia stuff, with a little bit about my “real life” occasionally, when I remember.

So, here we go: I’ve recently upgraded two of my systems (one laptop, one desktop) to Ubuntu Gutsy, which, according to the counter on the right hand side of this page, is due out in 15 days (18 October). I opted to perform clean installs on both systems - this wasn’t by choice on the laptop, due to it running out of power half way through the in-place upgrade :(. Anyway, I get the feeling that this lead to something of a “silver lining” moment, as the system seems to be running much better than its former Feisty counterpart. The issue is that I’m running i386 Ubuntu on an AMD64 laptop. Under Feisty, this required a long string of alphabet soup to be used by grub in order to allow the system to boot at all. Unfortunately, this broke all battery monitoring stuff, and all ACPI functions. In Gutsy, however, *no* extra boot parameters were required! Yay!

So far, I’ve neglected to mention the most noticeable change with Gutsy, compared to Feisty… I am, of course, thinking of the use of compwiz by default. So, this basically prettifies Gnome, with the least of fuss - a great change from Feisty, where I gave up trying to get visual effects working well.

Surprisingly for a beta version, I’ve not come across any notable bugs, and this release is definitely a vast improvement over Feisty. Roll on October 18th!

PS: I’m desperately looking for a good theme for this blog - any suggestions would be great.

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