Well the Ubuntu Developers have been back at it. I mean with Evolution that is. As you may know Evolution is an email client that comes with Ubuntus’ GNOME Desktop as worked great until a couple of months ago.  I had been trying to write a review of Evolution but there was one little flaw… well maybe a little flaw that found its way into a lot of Ubuntu 8.10 users computers. This one well was a configuration issue as is in the Ubuntu 8.10 proposed update that is being tested at the moment. I have been writing in and around lauchpad to get this thing resolved. There was not much information there, but there was a whole lot of people waiting on this problem to be fixed. The tiny flaw was showing in big nose in the preferences menu when anyone who needed to change a setting pressed OK at the end which of course crashed the program with a sigsev.  That caused at least a month and a halfs head ache for someone who really just wanted to use an email client that worked with no ifs, ands, buts or of course segsiv.

What can you do about it?

1. You can go into full force looking for information on the subject which I did.
2. You can report bugs… Which I did also.
3. You can confirm bugs… Hey I confirmed a lot of bugs but really there is nothing that comes out of stuff I have confirmed.
4. You can download the source code and search for the bug to fix it… which I will never be able to do like any developer that works on a distribution or programming project / business as I am more of a networking kind of guy or a computer technician which loves to fiddle around with computers.

Yes that is what you can do. Drive full force to help which is what people need and not let anyone slow you down until you are happy with what you have accomplished… with that said let the stuff you do be legal. 😛

So I today I went to System->Administration->Software Sources. Typed in my admisitration password, went to updates, check the box confirming I wanted intrepid-proposed updates which are still being beta tested and hey what could go wrong? Well today must have been my lucky day as nothing went wrong because everything went right.

On another note with High School finals coming up in about a week I may not post as much as there may be a conflict between studying for hours on end for math and CCNA 4 and the alternative hanging out playing video games, posting on my blog, fiddling with my 2 computers and also my server (which I am surprised doesn’t go down a lot more then it does.)

Thanks for reading,
Ryan Orser.