April 2008 – Tucson Labs

Ubuntu 8.04 Released

Posted on April 26, 2008April 13, 2015 by Josh

My overall impression of Hardy Heron is that it didn’t spend a long enough time in beta testing and was released too early.

Way too early. Last I checked Firefox 3 was still in Beta, and to me this says a lot about the current release. I can’t really go into detail about all of the bugs with this release because there are more than I have time to right about. In general I think that the Ubuntu team was a little to ambitious with this release and it really makes me wonder about the future of Ubuntu and the practicality of 6 month release cycles with the amount of new features they’re trying to push. I’m getting a far better experience on Debian Lenny (which is still in beta testing) in terms of stability, boot speed, and general system performance than I am with this RTM version 8.04 of Ubuntu. Those are just my thoughts, feel free to comment.

Life In Japan Update

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Josh

I’m really enjoying certain aspects of being a salary man; easy, fulfilling work, short working hours, nice pay check. Unfortunately, I’m really hating my commute. Generally it’s a 4 hour round trip trek to and from work, which is really draining in and of itself. I get by though, reminding myself that it could actually be worse (i.e., driving to work), and I get to take this time to read or study. My Japanese is coming along, but my working hours are preventing me from taking any actual courses and leaving me pretty much exhausted by the end of the night. I’m looking forward to an upcoming trip to Kyoto when my sister comes to visit next week!

Kawasaki Festival

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Josh

This was a fun, slightly odd festival centered around celebrating, well…

Inkscape 0.46

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Josh

Inkscape 0.46 has finally been released. There are a lot of new features packed into this latest version. My favorite being that the tool palettes can now be docked, which is a huge improvement in the user interface in my opinion. There are a lot of other new additions to this release that I’ll be testing out in the near future, in the mean time, head over to the <a href=”http://inkscape.org”> Inkscape website </a> to get a free copy.