Intrepid Updates

I guess it's time for an update on how Ubuntu Intrepid is going on my Dell Inspiron 1501. Well, pretty good actually.

Suspend and Hibernate are working again (mostly) and if things don't wake up properly from hibernate, it goes into a normal startup sequence when moving up to runlevel 5. Could be a little neater on initiating hibernate or suspend, but all in all, it works.

OpenOffice 3.0 unfortunately will not be released as a standard part of Intrepid. That kinda sucks, but the very kind people at Ubuntu have made it available, patched, as a backport.
Just add:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, reload you package lists in Synaptic and hit 'Mark all Upgrades'. Apply. That should upgrade OpenOffice from 2.4 to 3.0 and upgrade any other stuff in need as well.
I do have one gripe with OO3 in Intrepid and that is that I don't seem to be able to install extensions. Have logged a fault report here.

The instabilities with compiz I had earlier seem to have been resolved. No problems at the moment.

Tried installing googleearth. Well, what can I say. I just don't think the ATI driver is up to it. Need to do some more research, but it's pretty much a useless app at the moment.

I installed VMware Workstation (ok, I couldn't find anything to get the photos off my basic Nokia 6070 and needed the Microphylic PC Suite - which didn't work anyway!) Had to use the latest version (Workstation 6.5) to be able to build vmmon against the 2.6.27 kernel, as previous versions don't support it. (Building vmmon is part of the configuration part of installation.)
One oddity. This is the first time that I have come across a .bundle file. I didn't like the look of it and downloaded the .rpm instead to install with alien, but found that the rpm is just a wrapper for the same .bundle file. In the end I found out just to execute it. It's only the installation package and does not need un-archiving or a package manager.

That's about it. Overall I'm pretty happy with Intrepid. It's going to be a top release.

dov