On to Hardy Heron!

Well, over spring break I upgraded to Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) on my laptop. It went pretty smoothly. I'm still trying to get Avant Window Manager working the way I had it going in Gutsy. I think it's actually going to be another month or so before they get everything on that ironed out so it works up to par.

Gnome-Do came in the regular repositories, which was a relief. Overall, I do enjoy it a bunch. I have had a little difficulty with Rhythmbox and Amarok sporadically not working, and whenever I try to watch trailers in Firefox Beta 3.0 the whole computer freezes up. I had to download Firefox 2 to use my school's website to take tests and stuff because JRE (Java Runtime Environment) isn't working that great in 3.0 yet.

Pretty good, overall, though, I'd say. I'll be posting an installation guide this summer. I gotta get past exams before I spend much time on anything else.

I got streaming video online!

Okay, the only real problem I've had with video in ubuntu was that I couldn't go to apple.com/trailers and watch movie trailers (I'm only addicted a little... ;-). I had downloaded the VLC player, which I knew could play any videos I came across - but how to get firefox to use vlc? That was my dilemma. Well, I found a great tutuorial - but I forgot where it is... but I did find this awesome add-on for firefox, called MediaPlayerconnectivity. Check it out - it let's you determine which player plays what types of video files in firefox. Now I can stream video to my delight!!!!