Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) ready for rails
March 25, 2007
I’ve gone ahead and switched my development system over to Ubuntu 7.04 beta. I’d been having a few stability issues with 6.10 so I thought it couldn’t be worse. After a day of use, I’m glad I did. There are still some glitches (the built-in system for adding proprietary video drivers messed up my xorg.conf). But even though it doesn’t completely handle everything yet, it’s still a big step up from 6.10.
If you’re a rails developer, I can say that the full rails stack is working fine. Plus, for those of you using RadRails (thanks to Aptana for picking that up), the new restricted-packages installer makes switching to Sun’s JRE a snap.
April 5, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I’m glad I switched too. 6.10 was buggy for me and 7.04 fixes all of those issues.
April 5, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Definitely. It was more stable for me from the first beta and the updates since then have continued to iron out issues. I’d had some problems in 6.06 and jumped to 6.10 only to find that there were more problems. Had this release not been so solid, I would have at least started trying other distros again (I came over to Ubuntu after Fedora, Suse, and in the way way back time, Slackware).