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I'm curious what the difference in power consumption is between these machines. I know they'll be better with an Atom, but I'm trying to determine how much better. It would be nice to have info on...

Has Canonical made any kind of statement indicating that inclusion of Plymouth means that their boot time won't be as fast as expected (at least for non-SSD machines)?

It was made by someone from the community who participates in the community Art Team. The whole point of FOSS is that anyone can contribute large or small contributions to the best of their ability....

Not yet. I prefer to use Ubuntu as a "regular user" would, so I'm waiting for the official release from Canonical that will do it for me. Either way, that's not really a fix. It's a workaround that...

I wonder if it fixes this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359392 Please oh please...

Agreed with this sentiment. They should move potential release dates to the beginning of the month so if something comes up, they can push things back 2 weeks and not feel like they *have* to get...

Wow, if they can fix THAT, it would go a long way towards usability and ending some of my (minor) headaches. I'm really interested in this PA release. I wish it could make it into Jaunty... :-/

Any chance these fixes will be in Ubuntu 9.04? Highly doubtful, I know, but there's always hope, right?

I, for one, am glad they're making a quality control decision if the UXA isn't up to snuff.

I disagree with all the brown/orange hate (from you and others). It can be done well, it just takes a little finesse and not using crappy shades. E.g. kin dust, aka Didymous:...

Add Ken Wimer's PPA and check out the 3 community themes (community-themes package containing Dust, Kin, and New Wave). They all look pretty good to me. Unfortunately, Canonical has the final say...

It's available, but it's not installed by default. Ubuntu chose to wait until its performance is improved before making it the default IM client and replace Pidgin. Install empathy in Synaptic if...