One reason to upgrade 'now' = Bluetooth works out of the box. It does
seem faster. The left-hand controls are a bit tough getting used to, but
I suppose they want to be closer to the fruit camp than the other one....
-Ben
Tim Gibney wrote:
> I downloaded the ISO and gave it a shot a few days ago with a fresh install
> rather than an install of Ubuntu 9.10 and then an upgrade.
> Grub worked this time. However the cdrom version came with the old 1.94 beta
> of Grub and not 2.x. I am guessing Cannical did this at the last minute due
> to bugs and people complaining. If you upgrade from 9.10 it will try to
> install grub-pc aka 2.0.
>
> Anyway it was VERY FAST. KDE looks more complete and it actually does not
> suck as much as past versions of kubuntu. THe add/remove software is a great
> replacement for synaptic for supported apps that are more integrated and
> popular.
>
> The theme is very different. I thought it was interesting but liked the
> older Ubuntu brown human themes better. To my disappointment its not
> installed and I gave up googling the theme. I installed it from an old 9.10
> cdrom lying around.
>
> MY verdict:
>
> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 right now and decided to downgrade for the time
> being. The enchancements are nice and it has a different feel to it.
> However, I found it very buggy. FIrst I had an issue with grub being toasted
> upgrading from 9.10. Hibernate and sleep give me I/O errors when my notebook
> tries to wake up. Wifi also does not work after a hibernate either. I have
> to do a cold reboot as my drives stay locked. In addition, I also installed
> ATI's drivers and compuviz addons only to screw up my Xorg files. There are
> 4 drivers and I can not figure out which one Ubuntu uses by default. I tried
> the rescue kernel and it works some of the time or causes my computer to
> lock up. Also my tty's will no longer start up either which I find strange.
> I wonder if its the video driver that can not shift back to the frame buffer
> when I hit the F keys? Weird.
>
> I will give Ubuntu 10.04 another try this July. 3 months is when Ubuntu
> release become stable and 10.04 is a long term release which is a plus for
> those who want updates without upgrading their OS every 6 months.
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 is plenty stable and nice to to look at not to mention is less
> buggy. Debain might be a better pick for the KDE users out there. Debian is
> very stable but I do like having nice fonts and things setup automatically
> which is time consuming to setup in Debian.
>
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