The Ubuntu team has pushed out the beta release for Ubuntu 9.10. "Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition improves on the work of 9.04 to get you going faster, with improved startup times and a streamlined boot experience. Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition integrates Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud setup in the installer and provides improvements to system security with AppArmor, including an AppArmor profile for libvirtd to further isolate virtual machines from the host system. The Ubuntu 9.10 family of variants, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu, also reach beta status today."
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2005-07-06
I almost fell out of my chair thinking that Ubuntu 9.10 was released on the 1st of October! Then I saw that the headline was, "Ubuntu 9.10 Beta Released".
I've been running 9.10 Alpha on a laptop for about a month now. It is very functional, except I get kernel crash notification messages all the time (a little "splat" notification). They don't appear to be hurting anything, and I imagine their frequency will diminish over time.
The Ubuntu One (dropbox equivalent) seems to work OK, but I haven't tested it on another box (receiving the dropped files), since I only have the one 9.10 box.
The theme is still fairly brownish.
Good day!
Edited 2009-10-01 21:57 UTC
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2005-11-10
As usual, downloading now. I’m interested to see what’s different here as I haven’t heard as much about this release as I have others. The 'paper cut' work really is the most important thing to me. Error messages that list cryptic command strings (that you can’t copy), that it could just as well execute for you, is not what I want to see.
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Is that just an Intel Graphics thing, because 9.04 is pretty unusable in both my PC's (home and work). The work PC has an integrated ATI graphics chip. The home PC has an NVidea AGP graphics card.
I get all sorts of erros in 9.04:
* WINE applications have painting bugs that did not exist in 8.04 (example, buttons borders are half painted).
* Starting a Windows application with WINE brings my Quad Core processor to a halt for about 30 seconds. God know what happens in that 30 seconds to kill 4 CPU cores. When I run them from the command line, I get all sorts of error output, but eventually the app loads (but much slower that 7.10 or 8.04 did).
* Custom written GUI Toolkits like fpGUI or MSEgui have painting bugs. Both those GUI toolkits talk directly to XLib (not via GTK, QT etc.).
I'm really not happy with 9.04, so I sure hope 9.10 has al this fixed. 9.04 was by far the worst Ubuntu release ever.
Oh, and PLEASE bring back the "flurry" screensaver! It's the nicest one of the lot. :-)
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I don't have any experience with 8.10, but I do have with 9.4.
I've been playing with 9.10 for the last four hours and I can tell you it is a definite improvement on my equipment! ( Dell Latitude E5400 )
From the first boot everything worked like a charm and auto-configured like it should. ( except for the wireless drivers that had to be installed separately ) It responds snappy and I haven't noticed any bad performance, bugs or quircks at all...
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2009-08-19
I hope they fix regular disconnections of Intel 3945ABG against Linksys WRT160N. Bug is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/348204
While this is not fixed, there is no Ubuntu for me. Maybe I'll give fedora 12 a try.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/348204
While this is not fixed, there is no Ubuntu for me. Maybe I'll give fedora 12 a try.
I've found Linksys routers to be very problematic - even when using a 4965; I've since replaced the router and the problem hasn't reappeared. It only occurred, funny enough, when using WPA authentication but it doesn't appear when using WEP or no password at all.
All I can suggest is to check whether the same issue occurs on non-Linksys routers because if it does, it sounds like a compatibility issue specific to handling a noisy environment.
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