Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10: My First 10 Days

By: Matt G

Matt G — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:55:15 +0000

My Karmic Koala experience. Was a nightmare errors like I have ever seen. Nothing wanted to work had trouble getting online. It crashes I used Ubuntu for a long time. I had to go back to 8.10 intrepid. I use Ubuntu on my laptop for work. For network diagnostics I will wait until. The next version Lucid Lynx 10.04 I hope it is better.

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30:19 +0000

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By: giannis katafigis

giannis katafigis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:46:06 +0000

For me karmic is just the best release !
Ubuntu was installed in 2 different computers one with an intel gpu and the other with an ati 3650,the upgrade to karmic was flawless and smooth!
The sound seems to be better,compizconfig works like a charm and generally i adore karmic!
@ gadget sleuth
please test yourself karmic if you want to judge!
Absurd generalizations about the open source is pure idiocy…

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:51 +0000

Wow, sounds almost as bad as Windows, reading over all these comments! Wild freeware and open source development tends to be buggy by its very nature. Pass.

By: Dwight

Dwight — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:04:55 +0000

For those of us using Ubuntu server thanks to Amazon, this is the first version I’ve ever had to delay/avoid implementing.

My test server puked on the RAID controller, VMWare doesn’t work with the kernel without a patch that introduces memory leaks, and the memory footprint is up by 30% overall.

By: juzzlin

juzzlin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:45:42 +0000

I think Karmic is overall much better than Jaunty. I still had some annoying bugs with audio that worked just fine and out-of-the-box on Jaunty.

I love Ubuntu Software Center! Still wondering why not every app is not present there..? I was e.g. trying to install QCad and Subversion but had to use Synaptic instead.

By: Ivery Marable

Ivery Marable — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:44:35 +0000

First I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 on my 6 year old Sager Notebook. No major problems. Minor was time from start to finish.

2nd, Installed 9.10 on IBM 300PL 900mhz…flawless. This machine is dual booted with 8.04.3 server.

3rd. Installed Karmic as guest on Virtualbox. This took close to 2 hours to complete. No issues,

4th. Installed Karmic on my main computer to a 3rd hd. Installed was quick…but at boot…got an error..no Grub found. I ditched that installation and installed on 2nd hd…have issue with screen resolution, black screen when I set resolution above 1024 in Gnome. Issue not present with LXDE environment.

Will find solutions to Gnome issues. I started with Ubuntu 5.04.

Next project to export/import Virtualbox images to Virtualbox on 9.10. Should be completed by the end of the month.

In closing…. Ubuntu Linux OS transcends Desktop Computing.

Senior Citizen
‘n Georgia USA

By: DaVince

DaVince — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:11:31 +0000

My gripes with XUbuntu:

- It doesn’t come with some of the new versions of applications that regular Ubuntu comes with, like UbuntuOne, the new software installer, Janitor, and disk utility.

That’s it. The entire system’s been smooth sailing for me ever since the first install.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:58:02 +0000

I’ve beer trying to use ubuntu for the last 4 days and I am having a TRUE NIGHTMARE. I just want to install couple packages and it seems to be impossible to do without creating a huge mess… this Ubuntu 9.1 REALLY SUCKS

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:26:48 +0000

glowndark: many, many thanks for that suggestion–it seems to work, which makes me really happy. I wish I didn’t have to choose between desktop effects and kernel mode setting, but this is still a huge help and might help track down the source of the problem.

By: glowndark

glowndark — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:25:10 +0000

as for con#1: X freezes for intel 945G display chip, try this, put this line at the end of your kernel in /boot/grub/grub.cfg : nolapic nomodeset
then try to run your compiz with command : compiz –replace –indirect-rendering , if it works, put it in Startup Applications. it works in my box.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:35:26 +0000

“The weather applet that used to display next to my clock no longer works. I haven’t yet figured this out, and I really miss knowing whether it’s sunny or cloudy without the hassle of having to look out my window.”

Lol the update the day after this was written fixed that