It's a month since my last news item and since it's also now almost a month since Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) was released, work has picked up again on Terminator. We're landing lots of fixes and architectural tweaks all the time, with a few features slipping in there too.
There's …
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... neither of them good. First off, in a stunning piece of fail, Lenovo have used a drive from one of the few manufacturers that enforces region coding on DVDs in hardware - Matshita, aka Matsushita, aka Panasonic. This is very frustrating and made worse by the drive shipping in a state …
Just a quick update on how things are going. I've been pretty slow lately because of trying to get as many bugs fixed in Hardy as possible. However, we've still been working away a bit and the team has continued to grow.
Reliance on gnome is being reduced, and portability …
You have new hardware (most likely server). You pop in a debian/ubuntu installer CD, tell it what kind of keyboard you have and expect it to scan the CDROM for packages, but....uh-oh, it can't find the CD! What do you do?! Well, realistically there's not a lot you …
The Thinkpad X300 is a pretty tasty beast. Much nicer screen than the X40, and the SSD is a huge win for lots of IO workloads. I've still got a fair few Linux support oddities to work through, but thus far people are being very helpful. When the support is …
luisbg has a blog posting of the very interesting looking flickbook, specifically a video which shows Terminator being used to launch the demo. Woo!
A few sneaky bugs slipped into 0.8, so we've got 0.8.1 out now to take care of them. Enjoy!
0.8 had a few annoying little bugs we decided to squash quickly, so without further ado, 0.8.1 is now out and on the homepage.
This is a bugfix and feature and infrastructure release. It should be a lot better than 0.7 in less focussed ways - e.g. icons, menu integration, better gconf support. As usual hit up the Terminator home page for more.