Re: fiesty

On 1/27/07, unit3 <unit3@demoni.ca> wrote:

> I'm curious, what's new and fun in Feisty?

Two things today. First:

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Just in time for Feature Freeze, migration-assistant 0.3.1 was
uploaded to main and the accompanying changes were merged into
Ubiquity [the Ubuntu live CD installer].  It can be run using the
--migration-assistant option in
Ubiquity.
The goal of this feature is to allow users to import documents and
settings from their previous operating systems (Windows XP and some
bits of Linux at this point) and convert them into their Ubuntu
equivalents during a dual-boot installation.  So for music, it pulls
"My Music" into Music and sets the necessary gconf keys so Rhythmbox
starts with all of their existing music already available (provided
they've installed the necessary gstreamer packages).  It also merges
settings from multiple sources.  So if you have Firefox, Opera, and
Internet Explorer installed it will create a single set of bookmarks
from all three of them.
Further details can be found in the specification:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/migration-assistance
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Second, libwps (see http://list.slg.org/200609/11541.html) is now in
main as a dependency of OO.o and does a great job of extracting text
from my old MS Works word processor files.
CK