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Alright, I’ve done it. Have been playing around with Feisty and got it all to work on my precious Dell D830. I had a lot of problems with Feisty (you will find the links on the left) so when Gutsy came out I hoped everything would be fixed (it did have the new intel drivers).

Well I was wrong. The problems with Gutsy on my Dell are just too big. My wireless is failing all the time. Compiz doesn’t really work (applets don’t start, settings are not saved). Too much to tell.

So I did it, I switched to hardy. Better to have an unstable release that kinda works than a stable release that just kinda doesn’t work. At least now I know I can’t blame anyone. So as time will pass I will post some updates about my experiences with Hardy.

I’ve just installed Flock. It is a firefox based browser with added functionality. I’m using it now to write this blog item… It has some other cool stuff like online bookmarks (through del.icio.us), a very nice rss feed reader (although not perfect yet) and a flickr integration.

It is still a pre-beta release, they call it the developers release, but for that status it works very, very well. And since it is based on firefox you will have no problems reading your favorite websites.

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