So last night I took the plunge in upgrading to Edgy, well actually I took the plunge in installing it to test my rsync disaster recovery plan. All in all, not too bad of an experience with only a handful of annoyances.

• Flash Crash? >> Edit xorg.conf default color depths to 24 (discussed here)
• Touchpad not so touchy? >> sudo sh -c “echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe”
• Wireless more like connectionless? >> WiFi Radar (in the repos) should help get you over the hump

The rsync backups that I had been making for the last couple of months worked like a charm as all of the apps I use were restored back like nothing had changed including Firefox which traditionally has been a huge pain in the ass. Tomboy, F-Spot, Liferea, PenguinTV, and Amarok all restored like a charm cutting back the time to get up and running. The other big win is that 6.10 boots and shuts down much quicker, possibly 50% faster than 6.06 and easily 100% over 5.10.

Good times.