The Good:
- network-manager (nm-applet) finally works for my chipset (cisco aironet) and for my network (UNC-1). Yaaaaay easy, working wireless!
- Fonts look nicer.
- Pidgin >> Gaim. I left my /home partition untouched when installing gutsy, and pidgin picked everything up from my ~/.gaim just fine.
- Boot time ever-so-slightly faster. From grub splash to GDM prompt is 54 seconds on my T41. Feisty was just over one minute. Not huge, but nice to see improvement.
The Bad:
- I had independently installed Beryl under Feisty, and I had nice wobbly windows and cube effect. Under Gutsy I supposedly have compiz-fusion (beryl and compiz projects merged) available as “desktop effects” under System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Desktop Effects, but I don’t have xgl and the driver that should have it doesn’t work. Poop.
- in-place dist-upgrade from feisty to gutsy was ugly. I was left with a font scaling problem as described in Bug #118745. I downloaded the gutsy daily iso and burned it to a DVD (it’s too big for a CD currently) and was able to do an install that worked. As mentioned before, I left my /home partition untouched during the install and things were fine.
That’s all for now. I’ll write up more when I get the time.
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