Comments on: Distro Review: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/ There's No Place Like /Home Sat, 12 May 2012 20:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-3482 Dan Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:21:33 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-3482 @Max - No problem, thanks for reading. @Max – No problem, thanks for reading.

]]> By: Max http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-3481 Max Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:19:45 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-3481 As always Dan is the man in doing reviews. I always read your reviews Dan and take some notice of it too. And it has to be said, Dan you are one of the few who replies in return. Not many do that. Enough. I reckon Ubuntu 9.10 is very nice indeed and for me it works great. The main reason I come back to Ubuntu is that I like the character of Mark Shuttleworth. Great guy. Personally I am more an Opensuse guy and am I using currently version 11.2 with KDE. The latter is odd because I like more Gnome however KDE in Opensuse 11.2 is a winner. Beautiful indeed. I try most of the main distros except Mandriva. Don't know why but probably because it smells French. (Was a joke). Ubuntu is great never mind the snobs may say. Finally somebody (Shuttleworth and co) who seriously brought Linux out of the dust. Due to Ubuntu other distros like Fedora and Opensuse had to follow too. Thanks for the nice review Dan. As always Dan is the man in doing reviews. I always read your reviews Dan and take some notice of it too.
And it has to be said, Dan you are one of the few who replies in return. Not many do that. Enough.
I reckon Ubuntu 9.10 is very nice indeed and for me it works great. The main reason I come back to Ubuntu is that I like the character of Mark Shuttleworth. Great guy. Personally I am more an Opensuse guy and am I using currently version 11.2 with KDE. The latter is odd because I like more Gnome however KDE in Opensuse 11.2 is a winner. Beautiful indeed. I try most of the main distros except Mandriva. Don’t know why but probably because it smells French. (Was a joke).
Ubuntu is great never mind the snobs may say. Finally somebody (Shuttleworth and co) who seriously brought Linux out of the dust. Due to Ubuntu other distros like Fedora and Opensuse had to follow too.
Thanks for the nice review Dan.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Dan Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:32:15 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-3013 @Todd - I agree, that's not acceptable at all. Have you reported the problem on Launchpad or asked anyone about it? That might be worth doing. For what it's worth I've never had that problem with the installer on any of the dozens of machines I've installed Ubuntu on. None of them were a Toshiba Satelite laptop though, so I can't say if it's a hardware specific thing. Whatever it is it should be fixed, and I completely understand you frustration. Have you tried other distributions? It could be an Ubuntu problem. You could try Mandriva, OpenSUSE or something different, but I understand if that's not the answer you're looking for. You might not want to. I sincerely hope there is a solution to your problem soon or if one already exists that you find it. I'm afraid I can't be much more help at the moment. @Todd – I agree, that’s not acceptable at all. Have you reported the problem on Launchpad or asked anyone about it? That might be worth doing. For what it’s worth I’ve never had that problem with the installer on any of the dozens of machines I’ve installed Ubuntu on. None of them were a Toshiba Satelite laptop though, so I can’t say if it’s a hardware specific thing. Whatever it is it should be fixed, and I completely understand you frustration. Have you tried other distributions? It could be an Ubuntu problem. You could try Mandriva, OpenSUSE or something different, but I understand if that’s not the answer you’re looking for. You might not want to. I sincerely hope there is a solution to your problem soon or if one already exists that you find it. I’m afraid I can’t be much more help at the moment.

]]> By: Todd Doucet http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-3010 Todd Doucet Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:27 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-3010 I find the installer to be not reliable, and crashes about 90% of the way through an installation on my Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop. It leaves me with a non-working Ubuntu installation. I would think that, at this point, the Ubuntu people would have a *reliable* and *working* installer. But they do not. After a certain number of years, these Linux limitations start to become less acceptable, no matter how much cheer leading you hear. I find the installer to be not reliable, and crashes about 90% of the way through an installation on my Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop. It leaves me with a non-working Ubuntu installation.

I would think that, at this point, the Ubuntu people would have a *reliable* and *working* installer. But they do not.

After a certain number of years, these Linux limitations start to become less acceptable, no matter how much cheer leading you hear.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-2846 Dan Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:14:37 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-2846 @goekhan - Thank you, that's very kind. I do my best. Looking forward to OpenSUSE and Fedora myself, should be interesting. I'm on Mandriva 2010 now. Will report back soon :) @goekhan – Thank you, that’s very kind. I do my best. Looking forward to OpenSUSE and Fedora myself, should be interesting. I’m on Mandriva 2010 now. Will report back soon :)

]]> By: goekhan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-2845 goekhan Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:49:17 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-2845 hey dan, just wanted to say thanks for all the reviews. i really like them. i came across whilst looking for a distro (which became disto-hopping). i´m looking forward to your reviews of opensuse and fedora. i like how really test the distros by using them, not -how it´s often done- by taking screenshots and repeating what´s said on their website. keep up the good work. hey dan,
just wanted to say thanks for all the reviews. i really like them. i came across whilst looking for a distro (which became disto-hopping). i´m looking forward to your reviews of opensuse and fedora. i like how really test the distros by using them, not -how it´s often done- by taking screenshots and repeating what´s said on their website.
keep up the good work.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-2838 Dan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:10:41 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-2838 @skkeeper - Excellent, I hope that's true. Some people have reported long install times to me with the final release, but I haven't checked myself so can't confirm or deny. It was a pre-release version I had as I said, a few rough edges are to be expected. That's fair enough. @skkeeper – Excellent, I hope that’s true. Some people have reported long install times to me with the final release, but I haven’t checked myself so can’t confirm or deny. It was a pre-release version I had as I said, a few rough edges are to be expected. That’s fair enough.

]]> By: skkeeper http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-2836 skkeeper Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:54:45 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-2836 Testing with beta packages was probably what caused the installation time to increase so much. I installed Karmic in like 18 minutes in a way worst machine than yours. Testing with beta packages was probably what caused the installation time to increase so much. I installed Karmic in like 18 minutes in a way worst machine than yours.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-2831 Dan Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:54:21 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-2831 @Dylan C - Hey no problem, I just thought I'd explain the rating a bit more. I love Ubuntu but an amazing amount of the stuff they have is pushed upstream by other distributions. They've done great developments in the Software Center for example but I don't think we'll see that going into Fedora quite so quickly or easily. It's a common criticism of Ubuntu and one that I mostly disagree with, but from the outside it seems they don't push as much upstream as Fedora. They are doing a good job though and hope they'll improve on this record in future. I don't think it's malicious in any way, probably just an oversight. Thanks for reading :) @Dylan C – Hey no problem, I just thought I’d explain the rating a bit more. I love Ubuntu but an amazing amount of the stuff they have is pushed upstream by other distributions. They’ve done great developments in the Software Center for example but I don’t think we’ll see that going into Fedora quite so quickly or easily. It’s a common criticism of Ubuntu and one that I mostly disagree with, but from the outside it seems they don’t push as much upstream as Fedora. They are doing a good job though and hope they’ll improve on this record in future. I don’t think it’s malicious in any way, probably just an oversight. Thanks for reading :)

]]> By: Dylan C http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/10/karmickoala/comment-page-1/#comment-2829 Dylan C Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:39:40 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=1338#comment-2829 I didn't know that Fedora had those features already because I only use Ubuntu these days. A 3/5 rating for features seems quite fair actually, now that I know this. I didn’t know that Fedora had those features already because I only use Ubuntu these days.

A 3/5 rating for features seems quite fair actually, now that I know this.

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