[Bradford] Ubuntu released on Sunday

[Nick Rhodes]

Power saving now fully depreciates laptopmode (which has not worked
correctly for a few releases, to the point I could not get it working at
all in Lucid but could in Jaunty and Karmic) and implements various
power saving modes in the ACPI packages  for SATA, Sound (and others)
and suitable hdd mount options all enabled and working by default, I am
running the updated packages in Lucid and getting better battery life.
Its all pretty much a consolation of various scripts/patches and is
nicely extensible.

Also of note to Gmail and GCal users is that Evolution 2.30, which is
included in Maverick (I am running 2.30 from a ppa) now performs better
(now not annoying) with Gmail IMAP and the GCal and Gcontacts now sync
up reliably and cache offline properly.

I also believe that Dick has been playing with Btrfs - which is included
[ but beta quality - not recommended for production use], which is a
next gen file system which looks like they have taken the best features
from XFS, EXT4, ZFS and Reiser - significance being that in 6 to 12
months time we could see a widely adopted non-EXT filesystem as default
for the first time ever (for those that don't know ext4 was always a
stop gap with the intention of fixing issues with ext3 that were
becoming more significant and also to provide an upgrade path to btrfs).

Oh and Empathy now has meta contacts - would be nice to get some
evolution contact syncing going on though.

I have not had chance to look, but I am hoping that the 64bit of flash
will be reintroduced now that Adobe and released  a new version (after
abruptly pulling the previous 64bit player due to unfixable critical
bugs).

Cheers, Nick

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 20:14 +0100, Wayne Hanley wrote:

> As usual we will be having people around our place on release day for
> take out and installing.  Most of the major updates this round are
> with the server distro, but we are seeing some good inclusions in the
> desktop release also.  Of note to laptop users are the better ACPI
> support for newer chipsets giving you better batter life and also the
> inclusion of utouch drivers so if you have hardware supporting
> multitouch then you will see improved support for that to name a few. 
> 
> 
> 
> I believe LibreOffice is now going to be the default office suite
> which is rather nice in the light of Oracles claims of patent
> infringement.  Finally one nice thing I've enjoyed of late is better
> font hinting and the surprisingly nice new Ubuntu font (which is
> rather well suited to Android devices too).
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
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