Feisty Rocks but then it rocked me too

Feisty Fawn came out after six month long wait. A wait that was broken only by the test versions and the Herd releases. It was touted to be a super baby of a super parent which I consider Dapper rather than Edgy. I was always a vociferous lover of Dapper. I swore on “Till Death do us part” but then I ditched Dapper this summer when I checked out the cool features of Feisty specially Compiz and Beryl to be honest and the fact that there are loads of packages you can install I thought maybe why not a change. I tried out the Fesity Live cd and lo!!!!!!!!! the Desktop effects just worked out of the box…….

I couldn’t hang on to Dapper much longer now. So goodbye baby, ” I love you but then I love someone else more now.” So now I embarked upon clearing the graduating classes ie first moving to Edgy and then to to Feisty.

I had the alternate disc of Edgy…

What I did was

 

$sudo apt-cdrom add

 

Then

 

$sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 

It took around 40 mins to get to Edgy and everything just worked on. Then I got mad when I found out I had left the Feisty alternate disc back in the hostel. So here I was stuck with Edgy till the time I was in Mumbai in TIFR where I could download the Alternate disc. So it was a week-long wait.

 

“Mumbai here I have come and Feisty I will get you” was the resolution I had when I landed at Mumbai C.S.T. But then the HBCSE link just rocks and with the amazing download speed I did a network upgrade through the Update Manager and everything got spoilt. I got a broken system which wouldn’t boot and I went in for a clean install of Feisty.

That was amazing too. The install was too smooth and also all the packages but then a known bug which was unknown to me ie, the libxine and Desktop effects combination broke my system when I installed totem-xine. I again went in for a clean install. This time the FlashPlugins bug came and destroyed my honeymoon with Feisty. And then to top it all I got a Filesystem error on the root partition. Is my Acer laptop misbehaving just after the warranty is over. I hope not.

 

This is my third installation of Feisty and if this breaks too I am going to go back to Dapper. I know it will welcome me with well open hands. I am loving my stint with Feisty with the awesome amount of packages you get and specially Beryl. Go Feisty is the bottomline with me. I also love it when Divya gets jealous of Beryl on my system while I snigger about her stability and hence old Dapper system. I also love it when I tell Shishir,Divya and Khushboo that “see you can see this package listed in my Synaptic” while they don’t have it.The look on their faces is menacing but highly amusing.

 

Feisty rocks but then it can rock you too……………………………….