[Gllug] Ubuntu, Fedora pains

[Richard Huxton]

Foolishly, I upgraded my laptop+external monitor setup from the 
increasingly ancient Debian Etch which I had working reasonably well to 
Ubuntu 8.10

All fine, except for the pain that is NetworkManager - yes, please 
ignore my standard network settings and try your own after I log in 
(presumably all the youngsters change their CAT5 cabled IP address with 
their user accounts nowadays).

Well, all fine except the video driver has taken a huge leap backwards 
and my CPU sits there at 50% trying to display a flashing cursor. 
Scrolling looks like it's happening over VNC.

OK, let's give 9.04 a go - should be stable enough for testing purposes. 
  Hmm - display no better, perhaps even slower!

Well, doesn't take long to download an ISO - have a quick look at Fedora 
10, I started off with RedHat back in the 5.x days. Aha! Display seems 
faster, but tricky to get the dual monitor setup I want because 
xorg.conf seems to have vanished. Google around a bit - done.

NetworkManager still just as annoying, and Sun's java doesn't seem to be 
in the standard repos. Still - otherwise it all seems fine. Several 
months of bugfixes too, so that's good.

Hmm - the gnome calendar seems to think the week starts on a Tuesday though.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=325009

Not good - just spent five minutes puzzling why next week's activities 
were all wrong. Hadn't noticed Monday was on the far-right. Not seen 
this before - Sunday start of week, Monday perhaps but Tuesday is a new 
one. Ah well, it'll be some preference setting in the applet... no. 
System setting then ... no. OK, the locale files will be in /usr/lib or 
/usr/share or some such, I'll just google a bit and see who else has 
noticed this and what setting is wrong.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473445

You have to recompile glibc to fix this. For a bug reported four months 
ago. <sigh>

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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