Two weeks of Jaunty
I have been using the latest version of Ubuntu for a couple of weeks now, and so far it is proving to be a fairly robust and reliable system—certainly good enough for me to do my job, write development code and work on my thesis on a daily basis.
The only problems I have encountered so far are:
- Corrupt tracker index problem – I can’t believe this made it into the final release as it seems to have affected so many people it should have picked up in testing. There is a proposed solution and a workaround, but unfortunately everyone seems to be using the latter (can’t blame them – having a working machine is generally more important than testing bugs for most people). If I get a bit of time over the weekend I might install a separate instance under VMWare and see if I can do some testing.
- Freeciv doesn’t have any sound, unless you install the freeciv-sound package—and even then you’ll be lucky to get music. I don’t think this is a Jaunty-specific problem though.
- Although the function buttons on my laptop still work, I no longer get any visual feedback when using them—before upgrading when I altered the volume a bar would appear on screen showing me the current setting. This isn’t a major problem as the functionality still works, but having no visual feedback is a bit annoying.
Other than those issues though—some of which I hope to look into and file bugs for—everything seems to be running fine. Now if only I could get Alien Crossfire to play under Wine…