Saturday Apr 8

Kinder Surprise eggs and sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-​get update

sudo apt-​get upgrade

Running Ubuntu Dapper Drake, also known as the unsta­ble or devel­op­ment version of Ubuntu is like a roller­coaster ride. It is excit­ing and reward­ing reading the mailing lists, par­tic­u­larly for me the ubuntu-​art list, where I can influ­ence what I end up down­load­ing via apt the fol­low­ing day. I ran my daily update this morning and as usual after each update-​upgrade, almost like a sur­prise, I come across a new feature or func­tion or fix. It's great and some­thing I sort of have begun to look forward to each day. Reminds me of when I was a little kid back when our family lived in Germany and how each and every time mum took me along to the super­mar­ket I begged for one of those Kinder Sur­prise eggs. Every time I got to open one I was happily sur­prised to find some­thing new.

And now, scrolling forward to the present I am even happier, as what I am down­load­ing is free, not just in the sense of 'free beer' but also in the sense of 'free speech', which makes it even more excit­ing. So to finish off this entry, a big cheers to the rest of the Ubuntu devel­op­ment team for this morning after booting my laptop at a cafe with some friends my sound card was working nicely, without the need for me to look into the earlier problem of the audio audi­bil­ity.

Rock on folks!

Edit: I thought I might just add some­thing quite ironic. Note that I said I am running Dapper Drake, the devel­op­ment, unsta­ble version of what will be Ubuntu 6.06, when it comes out in late May. Now, from per­sonal expe­ri­ence, this unsta­ble devel­op­ment version is more stable than Windows XP. ^^

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2 comments

  1. 1. Hal
    Apr 09, 06:13

    Just back from 2 day jaunt, checks laptop, more Dapper updates!

    I seri­ously rec­om­mend trying Epiphany-​browser instead of Firefox. It still uses the Gecko ren­der­ing engine, but the inter­face is all native-Gnome — lightning fast baby!

  2. 2. Pascal
    Apr 09, 11:30

    I have it installed though it does not have all the exten­sions I like to use daily with Firefox. I’ll have another look at it though.

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