Bluetooth shows its installed but I do not know if its any much inferior to
10.04.
The next release of Fedora 12 should have great bluetooth. Ubuntu may have
borrowed redhat's feature as some Fedora Core users swear by their upstart
and bluetooth support.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Ben Everitt <ben.everitt@acsalaska.net>wrote:
> 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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