A year and a half later

So here I am trying to breathe new life into my dormant blogger account. It's been a while since I've posted, and while I'm in a much better position to give advice now, not much has changed in the Ubuntu community.

For example, the same ati woes I last blogged about still exist. While ati now offers linux drivers through their site, the binary installers still do not set up the drivers properly. There are a few guides around, like here and here. It can still be quite tricky to uncompress the ati driver into usable binaries and then get the driver properly set up so that the mesa driver is no longer being used.

On the up side, the next ubuntu distro, Hardy Heron, should be coming out (or I like to say "dropping") on this Saturday, the 19th of April. You can always check distrowatch to see when new distros hit. I must admit it's one of my favorite sites to swing by every fews days just to see what's new. I've also found it very helpful in finding the differences between each distrobution and what's new in each release. They keep track of what packages are included in each distro, so you can see what window managers or media players that distro uses or if they have the latest drivers included. Quite a nifty little site.

I hope to actually try and keep up this time around. I've got the crazy idea I might be able to help others and maybe even myself with this. I'm not out to make money, just provide for my family.

Thank you for reading.