Ok.

I've been using Maverick for a day or so now and ran some updates and I have a couple more things to add to my original thoughts.

Banshee has updated with the 1.8 version, and wow, it's working much better. No support for audiobooks (as a seperate library) but I've added my audiobooks with a special playlist. All of those tracks are tagged "Audiobook" and all I had to do was create an automatic playlist that was for the audiobooks following that tag, and another automatic playlist that was everything but that tag. Pretty smart. Banshee has integration with the Sound Menu, but switching tracks doesn't work yet. I'm sure it's being worked on.

Oh, and I didn't address the Plymouth issue in my last post. Eegads, it's ugly. I can only hope that this is fixed upon full release. It has to do with the nVidia drivers.

Again, if all I have to complain about are cosmetic things and one program not working with something new in the distro, then that goes to show that Ubuntu Maverick is a solid operating system.

Go get it from here and try it out. Remember, it's a release candidate, and there might be bugs, but you knew that.

Wow. That's what I can say about Maverick so far. Upgrading from Lucid was easy. I just pressed Alt-F2, then typed

update manager -d

and the update manager started up, after I entered my password. It started updating right away. Something I noticed right off the bat when I rebooted is that Maverick has taken care of some of my niggling issues, namely my laptop running at rest at 1.0-ish system load. Now, as I type this, my computer is running at 0.66, and it was 0.38 earlier. (System load measured by my system monitor applet.) I had to re-enable my PPAs and run an update, but once I did that, everything was ship-shape. I like the polished theme. I like having my music player in the sound/volume menu. I like the way the new messaging menu looks. Now for some pictures!! (Under a cut to save space...)

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