Wowsers's Journal: Testing Linux, the experimental code tree

During the week I subjected myself to torture for the next few weeks / months. After spotting an article in /. that KDE 4.3 had been released, I wanted to install it. But it's not in any official packages for my Linux distro, so off I go and take the step to jump on the experimental tree of code.

Now, despite me not being a Linux guru, I've been on that experimental tree before, and submitting bug reports, most of them getting resolved when others join in the report. You get the felling you're mad when you're the only person to file a report and nobody else can confirm it. So I'm not totally alien to the concept of getting a broken system in some way.

After installing the updated code, KDE4.3 looks a bit better, runs a bit faster, fixed some things here and there. But you know experimental code, someone releases something that breaks something.

So my system starts to get borked by updates to PulseAudio, which was working mostly fine, now all applications hate it and do their best to crash it. Oh well, more bug reports....!