Category: Web/Tech

Edgy Eft

After running Fedora Core 6 for several months, I installed EdgyEft, the latest Ubuntu release, released on October 26, 2006. I had run previous versions of Ubuntu, but gave FC6 a try because that is what Jack runs on his machines. However, I could never quite get rpm working correctly on my machine and when your package manager doesn’t work consistently, it makes the machine seem very fragile.

Edgy Eft installs Firefox 2, and I was glad to see that my favorite Firefox extensions installed without difficulty. Other than that, I haven’t noticed any big changes: it is just nice to be using apt-get again.

del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox Add-ons

An upgrade has been released for the del.icio.us add-on I use which syncs my browser to my del.icio.us account. This add-on now allows you both bookmark to your local browser as well as to del.icio.us. It requires a full refresh, and the servers were getting hammered, so it took a while for it too work properly, but now I like it a lot.