I’ve been so busy lately, haven’t had much time for all things linux-related. I guess I’m taking a breather since all of the 7.04 *ubuntus are out now. From what I can tell, the release has been a good one – no big “gotchas” have come up since release. Even though I do hear about the occasional problem with installing or upgrading, we haven’t seen anything as bad as all of the issues relating to the dapper-to-edgy upgrades.
I’m working with the rest of the ISO testing team to bring Xubuntu more into the testing fold for the Gutsy Gibbon release. During the Feisty release, I had to kind of follow the lead of the two Ubuntu ISO testing leads, so Xubuntu was always a little behind the procedures of the other groups. It was mostly because Xubuntu didn’t have much of a testing team at the start, so now that they see we have a team, hopefully they’ll let us be better integrated.
The Xubuntu team has an IRC meeting set up for tomorrow afternoon to discuss the plans for Gutsy Gibbon. From feedback we received during the Ubuntu Open Week sessions, and our own wants and needs, we’d like to have a wifi connection manager similar to the gnome-network-manager (but without the gnome deps), better samba support (we’ll see what approach we can take for that), and maybe some games. We also need to get our multimedia options in order . . . I know that for me, Gxine just doesn’t cut it.
All in all, it’s tough to add features while keeping the lightweight mandate of Xfce. Features vs. bloat . . . fighting the good fight. We’ll see how things turn out.
