Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 5 Review
I’ve upgraded my notebook today from local mirror repository. I don’t know which is an Alpha 4 or Alpha 5 release. Alpha 5 is released today, look at this release announcement and get the iso image here. From this review, I’ll update some features from this review and from the Alpha 5 announcement.
- Firefox 3 beta 3. Look at the pop up window. Instead of displaying “an annoying” pop up, Firefox display an “inline” pop up, which is on my opinion is cool.
- Application default to open some certain files. Cool
- Tracker pop up. Tracker can be invoked from notification tray. You can search from this pop up too.
- Metacity as composite manager, you can get some eyecandy the same as compiz (well, not compare to compiz, some features like drop shadows, translucency is perfect for me). Try open gconf-editor, then digg into /apps/metacity/general then tick “compositing_manager”. Voila, you got drop shadows now ;). Watch the video here.
When I was upgrading my Ubuntu Gusty to this alpha release, some errors occurred. This is what I’ve done to solve the problem:
- Change directory to python support directory
cd /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/bootconfig/ - Delete all .py files, but first you must check by ls -l command. Some .py files are missing, so we must to remove it first
rm -f *.py - Download python-support:
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-support/python-support_0.6.4ubuntu1_all.deb - Install python support
sudo dpkg -i --force-all python-support_0.6.4ubuntu1_all.deb - Then reinstall ubuntu desktop
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
