So, Debian has finally decided to rename Firefox and Thinderbird to IceWeasel and IceDove. Why all the fuss was all about, I still don't know, but I do find the Iceweasel rename job stupid. Why Debian simply didn't shove Firefox and Thunderbird in non-free beats me.
Ubuntu 6.10, aka Edgy Eft, has been released this week. Time to upgrade, and indeed, as the most comments say, Edgy starts up quite quickly, thanks to the new upstart init replacement. Edgy also contains - to my surprise - the recently released Firefox 2, which contains spell checking as I see while I'm typing this blog post. No excuse for typos any more :)
I'm a bit surprised that I had to manually change the Ubuntu release to edgy in /etc/apt/sources.list; with the upgrade to Dapper, I remembered the update-manager detected this automatically.
Other goodies : Ubuntu 6.10 server edition is now also available for Sparc.
Okay, here are some comments about this Edgy post :
- first of all, Sparc support was already available in Dapper. This is new to me though, cause it means I can replace my b0rken SparcDebian install on the Ultra-10 with Ubuntu.
- if you want update-manager to upgrade your system, run 'gksu update-manager -c'
update-manager didn't update to 6.10 because 6.06 is a LTS
(it's in the release notes)
Everyone knows APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day). APOD calendar list all pictures since 1995, in an easy calendar view.
I'm all hip, young & trendy again, cause I bought myself an iPod. The 2GB black Nano is a worthy replacement for the 512MB Creative Muvo I bought 2 years ago. As for iTunes, GTKPod on Linux seems a good alternative.
This must be one of the first topics I ever blogged about (I started blogging around 2001, so this exists already a while), but somehow the article got lost during a transition from PHPNuke to PostNuke, I guess. Villafanestudios.com is an impressive site with examples of beautifully carved out pumpkins, for all your Halloween decorations.
> Why Debian simply didn't
> Why Debian simply didn't shove Firefox and Thunderbird in non-free beats me.
Because if Firefox had of been put in non-free, then the free Debian wouldn't have had a modern functional browser like Firefox. Even with putting it in non-free there would have been problems, as MozCo objected to patches that Debian made to Firefox, that weren't approved by the mozilla people.
In the end what it comes down to, is that there was a bug report (about the trademark) and after exploring other options, Debian fixed the bug by changing the name... problem solved.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622