I just pushed a ton of updates to the main repo this morning, they consist of kernel 3.3.1, KDE 4.8.2 and various other program and library updates. At this point I have been using Synergy for day to day home use. It is also running the server this site and my build machine are using. Granted there’s still some package additions I need to make and will as need arises. However for my own desktop use, Synergy, at least from my persepctive, has arrived.
I can print and setup cups with the system-config-printer-kde package. I can do word processing with LibreOffice. I can skype with family and friends using our skype package. Surf the internet using Firefox (though I need to update it). Listen to Music and watch videos with vlc 2.0. Download with qBittorrent or transmission, sync files with dropbox, watch Youtube videos with flash, organize pictures with digikam and even install most rpms from external sources like Google Music or Chrome and everything still plays nice.
What I would like to do further is, finish the work on a new installer and create a light weight qt only based LiveCD with Razor-Qt (or at least have it as an option), along with keep up to date with some of the more popular packages.
Currently there is breakage in the repository from previous Alpha releases. Hopefully this will be the only breakge we’ll experience. It was do to a pretty dramatic change in the filesystem, moving binaries and libs into /usr. This work is still on going as some packages still point to / instead of /usr however symlinks have been place and all should work fine during this transission as long as you’re running the latest Alpha ISOs. If you’re not and wish you upgrade it can be tricky and is not preferred.
