Hoary Hedgehog
As a newly converted Debian/Ubuntu user, I've just now
realized the glory that is APT. Using Synaptic, I've just
upgraded to the latest Ubuntu release, known as Hoary
Hedgehog.
Most notably included in Hoary is the latest development snapshot of Gnome 2.9, the beta preview of upcoming Gnome 2.10. I'm enjoying many of the new feature, including the new menu arrangements, new applets, seamlessly integrated Samba browsing, Gnome BitTorrent support, and the newest in the line of OpenOffice releases. It's all pretty impressive.
Ubuntu handles updates through a front-end to Synaptic called Update Manager, which makes it a front-end to a front-end to a front-end. (UM -> Synaptic -> apt-get) I'll have some more screenshots later, but for now, let's just say that I'm very pleased with the direction of this distro, even though it's not as "Have it your way." as Gentoo.
Most notably included in Hoary is the latest development snapshot of Gnome 2.9, the beta preview of upcoming Gnome 2.10. I'm enjoying many of the new feature, including the new menu arrangements, new applets, seamlessly integrated Samba browsing, Gnome BitTorrent support, and the newest in the line of OpenOffice releases. It's all pretty impressive.
Ubuntu handles updates through a front-end to Synaptic called Update Manager, which makes it a front-end to a front-end to a front-end. (UM -> Synaptic -> apt-get) I'll have some more screenshots later, but for now, let's just say that I'm very pleased with the direction of this distro, even though it's not as "Have it your way." as Gentoo.
