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Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Norsefire writes to mention a Register piece reporting that early adopters are having a tough time with Karmic Koala, Ubuntu's latest release. "Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Ubuntu forums." What has been your experience if you've moved to Karmic?
It's Karma - your deeds are finally coming back to haunt you!
That's what you call working flawlessly? When it kicks you into an emergency console in which you had to remount your hard disks manually in read-write mode and run the package reconfigure command?
Clearly 2009 is not yet the year of Linux on the desktop.
"Rule 1: blame the user." /me sheepishly raises his hand.
I had forgotten that I had started using Grub 2 at some point. The upgrade instructions did mention that, I think, update-grub had to be run manually.
I passed right over it.
There was some audio funkiness, though. All sorted out because of something I did. I have no idea what though. I think it is PulseAudio thing... it usually is.
I prefer Lesbian.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
don't forget the pricetag :)
To be fair, you probably shouldn't be counting on your batter more than a day. There's raw eggs in there, man!
I don't know, which of the six versions of windows 7 are you going to run?
vi +
Speaking of karma, I can't believe there are this many posts and nobody has made the obvious "Karma's a bitch" joke yet.
Just saying.
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