So - I popped in the Jaunty Live CD, got to the boot menu. All is going well so far, I expected it to not boot though due to my graphics card (Nvidia 9500GT) and a Dual-Screen setup....ok I'm on the desktop (that was quick!). My dual-screen setup was detected just fine (with both monitors at the correct resolution no less!) I was already impressed just from that. I had a play around, and it took me all of 5 minutes to decide that I wanted to give it a proper try out, and to backup my home and install it properly.

1 reboot later, past the (in my opinion) great new GDM theme and nice new splash screen, I'm logged in, installing my nvidia drivers (180.xx) as recommended by a little pop-up. After that install and reboot, I get compiz effects working great, as well as an extended desktop - awesome!

After a bit more playing, I have the dust theme installed (it's come a long way since I last used it), as well as having emesene using the new notification system (which I have to say looks great!). I'm also running on an ext4 based system, and so far - all is well. Hopefully I'll have more to say when the beta is released, but this is running on my main desktop, so it's getting plenty of use

UPDATE:

I've got to say, after using jaunty some more this morning, one thing struck me...it's REALLY quick. Boot is way faster than 8.10 and running general. Shutdown is quicker too

I used to hate emesene, I didn't like the way it functioned, I hated the constant updating (it's still a little bit annoying, but at least the updates aren't even half as slow as a certain other OS's updates (read: Windows <All Versions> )) and I just generally preferred aMsn, maybe I preferred that slightly because I compiled it from source, whereas emesene was a simple "

" - who knows (or cares).

But I'm now using it, and I'm just in the middle of editing my .conkyrc file (any excuse to use Vim...) And I've got another couple of posts in the works which should appear in the next day or so.

Good to be back!