Switch from RHEL AS4.3 to Ubuntu 7.10

[Rick Cochran <]

Almost everything is better.

Things which are not:

xterm:
Occasionally, parts of the text on an xterm will fail to display. 
Clicking on the window will cause the missing text to appear.  Setting 
"Visual Effects" to "None" makes this problem go away.  Too bad.  I'm 
using the "restricted" nvidia driver.

bitpim:
Easy to install, but it doesn't work with my phone.  An earlier version 
used to work with the same phone under RHEL.  When I connect the phone's 
USB cable, I can see /dev/ttyACM0 get created.  The perms are OK.  If I 
try "Detect phone", I get "No phone detected/recognized".  If I enter 
the settings manually, I get "LG-VX6000 on /dev/ttyACM0: The phone is 
not responding while transitioning mode from none to brew".  If I click 
"Browse" on the "Settings" page, I get:

This port is available and can be selected.
Property	Value		Description
available	True		It was possible to open this port
class		modem		This is a modem connection
description	USB modem (/dev/ttyACM0)
device		(166, 0)
driver		ttyACM
name		/dev/ttyACM0	This is the name the port is known to your operating 
system as

If I exit from bitpim, a bitpim process is left running.

If I run bitpim as root, "Browse" in "Settings" identifies 
"usb::003::013::2" as probably being my phone.  However, I get 
"LG-VX6000 on usb::003::013::2: The phone is not responding while 
transitioning mode from none to brew".  Perhaps I should have a "brew".

Samba:
I can print to a Windows printer share, but only using the IP address of 
the Windows box (eg. smb://192.168.1.101/renoir).  Using the workstation 
name (eg. smb://theophilus/renoir) does not work.

K3B:
Needs to be begged to load its saved parameters.

Sound apps (Rhythmbox, Audacity, and Flash) still fight over who gets to 
use the sound interface.

Still working on other things.  Mostly a pleasant adventure.  A slight 
amount of disappointment.

-Rick