At the moment I’m connected to my terminal server with FreeNX and then to my laptop via VNC just so I can monitor the upgrade from Edgy to Feisty. Nerd? Yeah…
Downloading the package upgrades, some 1100 of them, took about an hour and a half which is pretty good considering the servers are getting pummeled. Right now, I’m halfway through installing the newer packages and looking forward to seeing the enhancements and improvements.
Anyplace on the ubuntu site where they list new features? I can’t find it…
Hmmm…With the site being down I have no idea!
What I do know is that on upgrade they install fucking Beagle and that goddamn pig made my life misery until I could stop it and remove it. Tracker is where it’s at if you have 0 resources like myself.
Beyond that gripe things feel a bit the same but then again I am playing with it via VNC via FreeNX so that is a really poor test.
The network manager is excellent, as is the codec detector (although I use VLC, so it’s rarely needed).
I used Tracker for about 1 day before going back to Beagle. I couldn’t figure out how to get Tracker to index my mounted network drives.
I’ve tried using Feisty’s built-in Compiz implementation, but it pales in comparison to Beryl and constantly broke.
Hmmm… How are your network shares done? SMB, NFS, or SSHFS? Mine are SSHFS and I just pointed tracker to the mount point in the config file
(.Tracker/tracker.cfg –> WatchDirectoryRoots=/path/to/directory_1;/path/to/directory_2).
Beagle is a great app but in my experience you need horsepower to run it, lot’s of RAM and beefy proc. Without either life is MISERABLE when it is running as it can suck up all available RAM and swap space as well as redlining the proc and on my laptop (PIV 1.7GHz with 512MB) everything grinds to a halt for upwards of 5 minutes as the little beagled indexes my files.
Looking forward Beryl when I replace the laptop this summer.
I’m using CIFS (ntfs partitions on a Windows box).
Beagle gave me a nice dialog box to pick the folders I want to index. I couldn’t find any kind of Configure menu in Tracker and immediately switched back to Beagle. I’ll admit it was a snap judgement and I’ll give Tracker a second chance.
Beryl may be labeled “eye candy,” but you’d be surprised how many of its features are actually very useful. My laptop is running Beryl on an integrated Intel i915 chip and it’s never chugged.
Yeah, Tracker has a wicked basic menu but the config file will allow you to specify multiple directories to index. One caveat, though, Tracker is apparently crashing my Deskbar-applet–which I have come to be addicted to over the last 6 months–so if you use it hold back on switching to Tracker until it gets patched.
Thanks for the tip. My girlfriend and I are switching her desktop from XP to Feisty today, which means those Windows shares will be no more. Time to learn about SSHFS. Coincidentally, your “SSHFS, Ubuntu, and You!” post is the #1 result on Google for “SSHFS Ubuntu.”
It is sort of crazy how that post has become my most popular one, that and the one on PenguinTV probably constitute some 60% of my traffic.