{"id":3618,"date":"2008-05-10T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/10\/my-only-gripe-with-the-heron\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T13:25:41","slug":"my-only-gripe-with-the-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/10\/my-only-gripe-with-the-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"my only gripe with the heron"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m quite happy with Ubuntu<\/a>. If a user didn’t have to be tied into specific, Windows-only applications, I’d recommend it. It’s stable, fast, intuitive and pretty.<\/p>\n

My one annoyance is what the latest release has done to CD\/DVD drive naming. In the past, my machine’s first DVD drive was hda<\/strong>. For no reason whatsoever, Ubuntu decide to call it sr0<\/strong>. Similarly, the drive’s name for command-line tools now has a different specification.So all my applications need to be told where the drives are; a pain.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ve been at this too long – I still like to use applications that I can see what’s running in the background, so I use grip<\/a> over gstreamer (mainly because, unless you’re using lame<\/a>, I’m not listening to your mp3s),\u00c2\u00a0 cdrdao<\/a> over (whatever the young kids are using today to burn gapless audio)<\/em>. At the very least, I would have liked to get a summary of changes when I upgraded Ubuntu. Better still, I’d have liked a list of reasons for the changes. Unless my CD\/DVD drive is now faster and more secure, why change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m quite happy with Ubuntu. If a user didn’t have to be tied into specific, Windows-only applications, I’d recommend it. It’s stable, fast, intuitive and pretty. My one annoyance is what the latest release has done to CD\/DVD drive naming. In the past, my machine’s first DVD drive was hda. For no reason whatsoever, Ubuntu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1276,270,305],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-cdrom","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}