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Yeah, today Canonical is releasing the new version of my favourite linux distribution Ubuntu. I already upgraded my computer at home to the release candidate and everything is working fine.  I like the new notification area which gives applications a standard interface to inform the user about things going on on his computer. I didn’t try the ext4-filesystem yet, but the benchmarks proof that its a little faster than ext3.

On my computer at work I did the upgrade to the RC aswell. Because AMD (formerly ATI) stopped supporting the fglrx driver for the Radeon x1300 I had to switch to the opensource driver “radeon” or “radeonhd”. These drivers corrupt my mouse cursor in a really annoying way, on some random vertical areas of the screen the cursor shows like a square.  Unfortunately I didnt find a solution for this yet and theres already a bug (#291053) opened in the launchpad.  I’ll keep you up to date if I find a solution.

Well.. The blog is set up out of debians repository and everything seems working fine.  Now its time to publish the first blog entry. But how should I start? What about a nice flash page I recently found while browsing the web:

• http://soytuaire.labuat.com/

It requires the flash player in version 10. Imho this is the way how the flash plugin should be used. It’s a nice way to present the new album of labuat, a spanish soul singer. By the way, the song used in the video is the best from the new album…