Giampi Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Stay tuned that on October 29th Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be released! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Totally ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twcrash Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 if I could play my games thru Ubuntu I would never use Windows again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake@War Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 +1 Same here Crash. Same here.... Edit: That isn't to say that I don't thoroughly approve of Windows 7. It's the best Windows to be released in the past 8 years... That's for sure. I've officially replaced XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gache Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Because in all the Windows 7 euphoria, we might forget that Karmic will be out in a few days... The headline features:New boot-splash and login screens (very slick!)New 'Humanity' theme & artworkEven better installation experience (for reference, 9.04 was damn near perfect)Empathy IM client - simpler & more usable than the old Pidgin, plus voice & video calls'Software Center' improves software management (and makes adding repos easier)Ubuntu One provides 2GB of integrated Dropbox-style remote storageNew Disk Utility provides a full read-out on all the disks in your system, including health, temperature and simple tools to partition or formatSystem Testing utility to check everything works as it shouldNew Intel video driver architecture with greatly improved perfNX protection, PIE, kernel module protection, AppArmor and ufw improvements for better-than-ever securityLoads of under-the-skin improvements I don't have time to type... I've been using it since the beta came out - feels very smooth. Despite the fact that my hardware would struggle with Aero... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twcrash Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I love Ubuntu I wish games supported Linux like I said if I had my choice, It would be Ubuntu vs Windows. Hell I would even use Snow Leopard if they ported it to PC. I use W7 now and tho it runs good I would love to get away from the Windows trap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giampi Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 Using Karmic since Alpha 4. This is a great major release! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gache Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Oy, I distinctly remember starting this thread... there must be a thread thief about! Using Karmic since Alpha 4. This is a great major release! Yeah, it's nice - what's your major 'wow' feature so far? Have to admit I haven't had a 'falling in love with this release' moment yet - at least, nothing like 7.10 when everything just worked, or after installing 9.04 and the fonts were so good it looked like my monitor had a resolution upgrade... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giampi Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 The greatest improvements I see: - use of EXT4 as default - my laptop is full working out of the box with all its devices - Intel drivers at the highest - Increased sound volume (pulseaudio) - empathy is improving day by day and definitely much better than pidgin - the new refreshed Human theme is definitely a great change - excellent default wallpapers - boot time, shutdown time improved over JJ - many minor items including the possibility to format a USB device by right click. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Ext4 been stable for you? I wasn't sure if it was rock solid yet or not. I'm excited about the Intel drivers because I'll be reinstalling this on my eee PC that has an integrated graphics card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giampi Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Ext4 is definitely stable. Intel is working at its best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gache Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Ext4 been stable for you? I wasn't sure if it was rock solid yet or not. Ext4 has been stable for me since, oh, before 9.04 I think. AFAIK there's one corruption bug left, but it's insanely difficult to trigger and has a patch that will be going in for 9.10 final... - Increased sound volume (pulseaudio) - empathy is improving day by day and definitely much better than pidgin The sound volume doesn't make much difference to me (except lowering the master volume control from 64 to 40), but I do like the new sound prefs/manager UI. Not only is it seriously cool, I'll be able to drop the old PA device chooser & volume control applets without losing per-device & per-app controls. I really haven't given Empathy a fair try yet... its lack of a plugins API is keeping me on Pidgin for now. - Gache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I don't plan to upgrade when it's out but wait maybe 1 month so more things are polished and that stuff. Do u think it improved so much from 9.04?, i'm quite happy with it and works flawless. Every time i have to work, and it means to use windows, it's like a "kick on the eggs". I find myslef all the time trying to use the 2 clipboars features, no crashes, no reboot for some ######ty update, ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Thanks for the info about ext4, I'll be giving it a try here next week. @Big - Yeah, I hear ya. The updating on my Windows XP machine is really annoying with all the restarts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giampi Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 Just released!! Download here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Tried out the netbook remix on my laptop. I like it but I think I'll stick with the stock version. As for EXT4, be careful about this bug: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenot...t4%20filesystem I'm going to wait til there's a fix before I install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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