First of all sorry for being gone so long if anyone has been following my blog, been kinda lazy to say the least…

I’m now using Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04.1) on both my desktop and my laptop. On a previous post I wrote about how Hardy Heron let me down, now I’m writing about how I’m coping with Hardy now. Most things I wrote about before have either been fixed, or I’ve fixed personally. Totem works now, I found before the reason it was crashing was probably because of the pulseaudio system which is being used in Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I personally dislike pulseaudio, I’m one of the unlucky few people who have had problems with it. I’ve switched everything over to alsa and it all works well.

One of the problems I had before was Firefox 3, it just didn’t ‘whew’ me, and the crashes while playing flash were unacceptable. I’m using Firefox 2 and happy using outdated software. One problem though, and this is more than likely my own fault, but flash cannot run in fullscreen, and this is fine by me. What caused this is probably the main reason for upgrading to Hardy Heron, compiz. I’m 95% that compiz is stopping me from running flash in fullscreen (On my desktop to be specific) but on my laptop it runs fine. This is probably cause I added the new screen saver plugin to compiz, I might be wrong, but my laptop doesn’t have it, and it works fine.

Why did compiz make me switch? Well once I got the compiz sphere plugin working on my laptop (with Hardy) I just had to switch since I needed compiz 0.7.6 for the sphere plugin to work, which comes in Hardy, and I figured what the hell. So I went for it, I really like Hardy Heron now, having the up-to-date stuff is just nice and who else on the block can say they can make their computer turn into a sphere?

Right now I’ve kinda stopped playing with Openbox, mainly because I’m just really liking my system as it is right now.