[indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

[Glynn Foster]

On 21/04/2009, at 4:26 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
> Glynn:
>
> elisa is an exciting new media application.  Might want to highlight
> that since it uses OpenGL, it doesn't work on systems that don't  
> support
> OpenGL (much like compiz).

Exciting until it somehow does a server grab and you can't get out of  
a black screen, but definitely something I wanted to include :)

> codeina is a new feature, which makes it easier for users to access
> popular multimedia codecs such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WindowsMedia,
> MP3 audio, etc. from Fluendo.

Agreed.

> Addition of hamster, gftp, and lynx.  Also, what about
> system-config-printer?  I'm not sure of the details, but might be good
> to ask Ghee about that.

Was thinking hamster was kinda nicely user oriented - though a little  
unsure about gftp and lynx. Might use them for filler space if needed.

> Do we support new versions of Python?  If so, that might be worth a
> mention.

Yes, the introduction of Python 2.6 is definitely noteworthy.

> Isn't this release also the first release that SRSS will run on?   
> Might
> be worth a mention.

Certainly sounds like we've got the majority of the packages available  
to make that possible - however, I don't believe SRSS is currently in  
a package repository yet, right?


Glynn