Upcoming Ubuntu Fun

I’m as jazzed as anyone with the upcoming release of Breezy Badger, the 5.10 release of Ubuntu. I keep hearing good things about the new Nautilus, as well as some nice changes with some of the included applications. I’m looking forward to working with Banshee, since I’m mainly working with Beep Media Player at this point — I’m in a mode where I like click on a button, pick a playlist file, and go. Easy, simple, and it doesn’t hog the screen real estate that Muine or (shudder) Rhythmbox do.

Other minor things that I’m hoping will be fixed in the new release:

• Sound: Hoary and Warty both would give sound preference to my TV tuner card, making it somewhat hellish to get the right sound setup working, and it’s still flaky - opening and closing tvtime will mute my input on my soundcard for no apparent reason.
• X.Org: I’m hoping for improved composite support. It was pretty reasonable previously, but I always had some residual visual weirdness, like a text window near the bottom of the screen would lose the last few lines somehow, or have them come up scrambled.
• XFS: Is it safe to come back yet? Seriously? Without risking my beloved collection of FLACs?

We’ll find out in a couple of weeks.