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Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 12, 2005 0:04 UTC (Wed) by darthmdh (guest, #8032)
In reply to: Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)

wajig not only exploits the entire apt functionality (ie, not just apt-get but apt-cache etc) but also exploits related external applications also such as deborphan, invoke-rc.d, and others. Yes, its available in Ubuntu.

It's nice to be able to use the one tool to search for packages, install, uninstall, place on hold, get sources, check changelogs, cleanup old junk, stop and start services, ... and its a tiny package too.

Back on topic though, I'm interested in people's experiences with Breezy on amd64. I have a Warty install on a dual-core amd64 and I really can't use it (don't laugh ;) because there appears to be absolutely zero driver support for my MSI board (ATI chipset) in the kernel it comes with.

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Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 12, 2005 3:30 UTC (Wed) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

I tried it on an MSI board with a VIA chipset, and a Gigabyte with an nForce3 chipset. The MSI/VIA really didn't work well; driver support, instability. The nForce3-based board worked perfectly and completely. Windows x64 also installed without requiring any problems on the nForce board, but I had to find the correct 64-bit SATA driver and put it on a floppy for some reason to install on the MSI board.

Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 12, 2005 17:13 UTC (Wed) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]

Hoary and Breezy both work great on my Shuttle machines, one having nForce3 and one having nForce4 chipset. Both use AGP video cards.