[Watford] Karmic Koala

[Pe'er]

Agreed, it's nice. Fast too.

A few notes:
Using the standard desktop LiveCD to install, it installed a PAE
kernel by default. Previously this wasn't the case (So I understand).
Alt. Install CD doesn't list PAE as a kernel option though. I will add
this is on a desktop with 4GB RAM installed.

New Software Center thingy: nothing to shout about really, just gives
a slightly more user friendly interface to it a package manager. Makes
it more 'Apps Store' like. Frankly it was always simpler than Windows
to install software from the package manager. Stuff thats not in the
package manager is another issue sometimes, not that it's always a
problem or that you often need it.

Really, I quite like it. I did a clean install onto a brand new
desktop and everything went almost too well. Did have one issue with a
mis-installed Nvidia driver, but thats due to internet connection
issues, and nothing to do with Ubuntu.

Peter



On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Toby Deans <plumocelot at gmail.com> wrote:
> My first impressions of Karmic Koala - (Ubuntu 9.10)
>
> At last they have FIXED resume from Hibernate. Linux always could
> hibernate, it was just its impression of rip-van-winkle with a single
> blinking cursor that slowed my use of the HP laptop as my main
> machine. This is great news.
>
> The new NVIDIA driver... seems a LOT less buggy..so far.
>
> Boot time - fast
>
> On a minus - The re-write of gdm and the login for gnome 2.28 means
> slightly less flexibility with skinning the log-in screen. This is
> just visual and I think the re-write was better in the long run..
>
> GRUB2 - A new boot loader. Yep. Control your excitement there.
>
> SoftwareCenter - Install all your favourite apps with a 'Windows' like
> lack of fuss :-P Install it with an app that uses the American
> spelling of 'Centre'/'Center' and feel sad.
>
> UbuntuOne - Look mum! Cloud computing! 2Gb of storage for transferring clutter.
>
> I did an upgrade from Ibex and it was painless.
>
> plum
>
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