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Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

bloopletech — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:14:59 +0000

Actually, I have a lot of music (~80GB worth) and I found rythmbox very crashy. I have found banshee to be a lot more stable.

But I'm not really fussed either way; they're both good (although I hope the crashes in rythmbox get fixed for those who still use it).

I know this is flamebait, but I think the complaints about mono are some of the most fatuous arguments I've seen in recent times. At first when I realised banshee was a .NET/mono app I thought "OMG!". But I later realised that disliking it because the language/runtime is based originally on an MS product is silly. Either the app is good or it isn't.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

rahulsundaram — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:16:08 +0000

They didn't get rid of anything but IIRC, no Mono apps are there by default starting this release.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

Pawlerson — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:19:20 +0000

Banshee is a terribly unstable player. Rhythmbox is much more better in this case, but its interface begs for improvement. Did they get rid off tomboy and entire mono, too?

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

b7j0c — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:10:58 +0000

keep up the great work, i look forward to this upgrade

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

HenrikH — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:43:15 +0000

On the other hand it you go from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS there will be no change of default music player. I think that is more important for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

dgm — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:35:41 +0000

Bad decisions. We all make them.

The key is what you do afterwards.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

cjwatson — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:21:44 +0000

That's good to hear. We've been putting a lot of effort into sorting out that very problem, and for this cycle we have a rotating team dedicated to keeping the development release in good shape.

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

sce — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:45:04 +0000

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes (11.04):

Banshee 2.0 has replaced Rhythmbox is the standard music player, and has now been integrated into the sound menu.

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/TechnicalOverview/Alpha1 (12.04):

The default music player has been switched to Rhythmbox.

Oh well :-)

Ubuntu's Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released

anatolik — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:50:41 +0000

Go Ubuntu, Go! You are the best desktop distro and I hope you'll continue moving forward.

PS I use 12.04 on my secondary home computer and I found it very stable, other releases were unusable for me until release candidates.