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MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks
This announcement is being cross-posted to a couple of the major mailing lists. In the future we will avoid cross-posting, so please subscribe to meego-announce@meego.com if you want to receive these types of updates. You can subscribe by visiting your meego.com account page under mailing lists or subscribe directly at http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-announce. Now, on with the announcement! Today, we are announcing our first update for the MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform & Netbook User Experience project release, originally announced on May 25th. Many of you were quick to install our recent release of MeeGo v1.0 on your netbook. We appreciate all of the community help from those of you who tested our release and filed bugs. In fact, this update has over 100 bug fixes and is recommended for all users running MeeGo 1.0 for Netbooks. This update includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your devices, as well as: * Updated to the 2.6.33.5 kernel * Faster usb storage finding time down from 5 seconds to 1 * Improved 3D performance * Many enhancements in the web browser * Resolution for several email client issues * Enhanced netbook window manager * Greatly enhanced visuals * Full support for GNOME proxy configuration in the media player * More control over DNS settings To get a full list of bug fixes you can visit the release update pages: http://meego.com/downloads/releases/updates/meego-v1.0.1-... http://meego.com/downloads/releases/updates/meego-v1.0.1-... If you run into any issues or have additional questions about the update, you can post them in our MeeGo Netbook Forum: http://forum.meego.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-announce mailing list MeeGo-announce@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-announce (Log in to post comments)
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 8, 2010 19:45 UTC (Thu) by bjartur (guest, #67801) [Link]
> Full support for GNOME proxy configuration in the media player
This feels so wrong. Doesn't GNOME even have an Internet resource fetcher?
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 8, 2010 20:31 UTC (Thu) by markb1 (guest, #67479) [Link]
Why don't Intel / Nokia, release 1.0.1 as a new bootable image, that
can also run in VirtualBox? It was almost impossible to run 1.0 in any virtual env ...
Make it easy for your devel-adopters, folks.
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 9, 2010 8:18 UTC (Fri) by PaulWay (✭ supporter ✭, #45600) [Link]
How does one actually download these updates? The pages linked to near the bottom of the announcement only seem to list the things fixed and updated...
Have fun,
Paul
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 9, 2010 8:50 UTC (Fri) by MKesper (guest, #38539) [Link] Have a look at http://meego.com/downloads/releases/updates.
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 9, 2010 8:52 UTC (Fri) by MKesper (guest, #38539) [Link]
Ah, my bad. You're right. This is stupid.
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 11, 2010 12:15 UTC (Sun) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083) [Link]
This link: http://meego.com/downloads may be more useful.
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 9, 2010 14:52 UTC (Fri) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
yum update worked for me. They don't seem to push to the repo with each update, but save them up for a major OS push instead. Dunno if I prefer it over the fedora style churn.
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 14, 2010 23:11 UTC (Wed) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439) [Link]
IMHO, the Fedora/Debian style is way better. For instance the timezone was incorrect for where I was living (off by one hour) due to a government change. Fedora had an update available the same day and in their main repo in a few days; it was more or less the same for Debian. For Maemo (and apparently how they are doing it in MeeGo too) it took like 6 months! If it doesn't make it in one update, you need to wait months again for the next opportunity for the fix. This is one simple example, now multiply 100x....
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6481 (Note the bug was supposedly fixed in January, marked as FIXED in March, but the fix didn't hit end users until May 25th).
Another example would be an update Maemo pushed which wound up breaking video playback for many users. Instead of being able to push a quick fix, people had to wait months for the massive update.
Or the bug that caused people to brick their devices after 17 reboots, instead of being able to push a fix right away....maybe multiply that by 1000x...
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 15, 2010 10:22 UTC (Thu) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Well, on my netbook, where writespeeds hit _MAX_ 10MB/s, ever, and where read speed isn't very fast either, simply doing a single package install is on the order of "machine may suspend itself due to noninteractivity" all the while anything else hitting disk is unbearably laggy.
In a situation like this, fedora style churn would make my computer unusable whenever I got daily updates. ( I know, I used to have it on there. It didn't work out. )
On the other hand, 6 months time is a long while for some. It does give good time to do some sort of QA on a full release and test it internally for a week before going on to users. Which you can't say about the Fedora style churn.
So, Both sides have benefits. I see your points, but I also hope you see mine.
MeeGo 1.0 update for Netbooks Posted Jul 15, 2010 13:22 UTC (Thu) by michich (subscriber, #17902) [Link]
New updates may be available daily, but surely you're not forced to install them as soon as they appear.
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