[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>

| A few things I've noticed already;

Thanks for the update.

I run Ubuntu on some of my systems and I salvishly update when a new
version seems safe.  Thanks for being one of the testers!

| - At the command line, when you pipe something through grep, it highlights the
| part of the string grep matched on. A small change, but soooo nice.

How could it do that without violating normal UNIX abstractions??

| - The default font size in terminals, and I mean outside of X, is much
| smaller. This means that when you do ctrl+alt+f[1-6], you have MUCH more
| screen space to work with. This is probably one of my favourite changes.

That's been possible, I think, with a kernel parameter (i.e.
vga=something in the kernel line in the grub config file
/boot/grub/menu.lst).  I don't do this so I'm not sure if this has
changed in the last decade.

I do usually scrape off the kernel parameters I don't like, splash and
quiet.

| - Input method switching now is done by ctrl+space instead of shift+space.
| This is long over due! For example, if I was trying to write a SQL query, I
| have a habit of capitalizing command words. I'd often switch to kana input
| when I didn't want to. That won't happen any more.

Yikes!  My fingers have been using CTRL-SPACE for NUL since 1982 (the
EMACS set-mark command).  They are not going to be happy.

| - They dropped Pidgin for Empathy as the default IM client. I've not used it
| yet though, I just installed pidgin.

I'm kind of used to Pidgin for the very few times I use it.  LICQ used
to be fine.  Is Empathy better or just different?  This is some Gnome
issue, I guess.

|   If you or anyone else is interested, I'll post more as I get more used to
| it. In short though:

I'm interested.
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