Installed the daily live from 1-29-2012. Installed from a USB flash drive onto an e-sata connected hard drive (/dev/sdb). For testing I can just hit F12 at boot to choose to boot from the e-sata drive and it takes me to the grub menu on that drive.
I was hoping to switch off Thunderbird and move to KMail, but it's crashy. I have to install the debugging symbols so I can submit reports on that. I run a python script called IMAP Spam Begone to take care of spam emails. It runs Spamassassin locally (with Razor/Pyzor) so my original beef with KMail not having built-in spam handling is no longer an issue. All my mail stays on the server. I don't download it. And isbg.py takes care of policing my inbox remotely.
Installed Firefox. Copied my firefox folder from my 11.10 install over to Precise and presto!. All bookmarks and passwords and everything came over no problem. Still have to install Chrome web browser. Might try installing VirtualBox.
All in all it seems pretty snappy and the install was easy. Still some crashiness with some apps, but that's to be expected at this point. I didn't have to install proprietary video drivers as everything seems to work fine with whatever the default install picked up. I have an ATI Radeon HD 4350 and my monitor is connected via HDMI. Sound works (Conexant Azalia on-board).
Almost boring, it works so well already.
I was hoping to switch off Thunderbird and move to KMail, but it's crashy. I have to install the debugging symbols so I can submit reports on that. I run a python script called IMAP Spam Begone to take care of spam emails. It runs Spamassassin locally (with Razor/Pyzor) so my original beef with KMail not having built-in spam handling is no longer an issue. All my mail stays on the server. I don't download it. And isbg.py takes care of policing my inbox remotely.
Installed Firefox. Copied my firefox folder from my 11.10 install over to Precise and presto!. All bookmarks and passwords and everything came over no problem. Still have to install Chrome web browser. Might try installing VirtualBox.
All in all it seems pretty snappy and the install was easy. Still some crashiness with some apps, but that's to be expected at this point. I didn't have to install proprietary video drivers as everything seems to work fine with whatever the default install picked up. I have an ATI Radeon HD 4350 and my monitor is connected via HDMI. Sound works (Conexant Azalia on-board).
Almost boring, it works so well already.