THE 7.04 EXPERIENCE

[Maurice Murphy]

As previously stated, I decided to do a complete new install of Feisty 
using the final distribution CD.

The installation went smoothly with no problems.  I had previously 
backed up all my Firefox and Thunderbird files, so was able to quickly 
restore all my bookmarks, emails and address books.

But I did have some strange experiences.  A new 'disk' appeared on my 
desktop.  On opening it, it appeared to be a second copy of the File 
System, but it was not always in sync with the Places/Computer/File 
System.  For example, I created an new directory in Terminal for my 
removable drive.  This showed up in the latter, but did not show in the 
Desktop 'disk' version of the File System.  Does anyone know why this 
'disk' has been added.  It wasn't present in my fully updated Feisty Beta.

I also had problems with my removable ntfs drive being recognized for 
read/write.  I eventually got this recognized by 'force'.  The system 
complained that this drive was 'dirty'.  So I installed it on my XP 
computer and did a Chkdsk.  No problems there.  When I reinstalled it 
under Feisty, it was still considered 'dirty'.  I also did a ntfsfix to 
now avail.  Anyone know why this might be and how it could be fixed 
other than by 'force'?

Managed to get all the restricted stuff going, but needed more than just 
the gstreamer.  May be the prompts could have led straight to the 
appropriate support and explanation file, where I eventually ended up to 
ensure I had installed all the required goodies.

I presume the Update Manager servers are working overtime at the 
moment.  Things were really slow today! :-)  :-)  :-)

The good news was that all my audio problems with Ekiga and GizmoProject 
were solved with the new clean installation.  Boy, the audio quality 
with GizmoProject is really excellent.  No echoes -- just a first class 
effort.  I intend to stay with Gizmo from now on.  Skype cannot even be 
loaded.  This is not a big problem for me as the audio quality was awful 
and inconsistent.

Congratulations to everyone involved in this noble effort.  So we're off 
to the races with the Feisty Faun!  Best to all, Maurice