Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx (Page 1 of 2)

I don't really care how it looks, as long as it works better than karmic koala.

I have a friend who runs a few ubuntu servers. After he installed karmic he's had constant crashes and had to roll back to 9.04

There are a few people in my university class that I turned onto ubuntu earlier this year. They thought crunchbang was too confusing, so I got them set up with 9.04 ubuntu. They loved it and got into it a bit, learnt a bit of linux, etc.
Now I haven't seen them for a while since classes are over and I'm getting a load of text messages from them all saying they upgraded to 9.10 and now they've got all these problems, crashes, stuff isn't working, etc.

Such a facepalm moment. After three years, finally getting some people to start using linux, and ubuntu went and broke it.

I am convinced that 10.04 is gonna be much better. Karmic, to me, feels like ubuntu made a mess of things and now should focus on making sure it doesn't happen to 10.04

I love it

I havent had any problems after a fresh install - I've been reading alot that upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 is a nightmare and that fresh installs are the way to go...shouldnt be that way, but at least it means the distro isnt completely broke

Full-automatic Otter. Now that's baaaaaaaaad.

Pre-Alpha Lucid? I tried that: it's called Karmic. lol

Thanks for the link. Seems I need it.

^^ By the way, does anyone have a list, or is Canonical pulling these names out of a hat?

There's some criteria involved, but I don't know how far ahead they are in their names. Because they just knew the first one would be buggy, they decided to call it warty warthog, as if they were saying, "Here we are, warts and all."

So it's always an animal, with a suggestive adjective, in alphabetical order, though what they do when they get 'round to 'w' again is anyone's guess.

Since a jackalope is not a real animal, maybe future editions could even be a unicorn or something. In pink, no doubt. *gag*

mystic monk, thats a good one

maybe #! should get something similar, perhaps a play on the #! warning

CrunchBang 9.10 Alpha anarchy (what version are we onto ?)

with an actual file /CrunchBang/release ?

not as a replacement to /usr/bin/env, just as an easter egg thing.

That was my experience as well, it waited awhile and then decided I didn't speak English after all. And I didn't switch desktops!

Mint 8 Helena stable has just been released, Friday, I think, and I have it installed on one partition. So far, it seems to be moving along perfectly, after Clem and team did their thing with it, but only time will tell.

It may be possible to overcome bad karma with a trip to Nepal, after all.

+1 for mythbusters... Without a doubt the best "reality based" show to ever air on tv (one of the best of all time I would say even though I still rate McGyuver highest)

I'll toy around with 10.04 in the future no doubt but as is it's hardly worth it... Wait 2 months perhaps (by then it'll be waaaaaaay more unstable than 9.10 has ever seemed and with luck they'll have introduced a new fancy theme)

I have downloaded and installed Xubuntu Lucid 10.04 Alpha 1  (Xfce )

Not much has changed visually, yet.
They have just updated to a new kernel ... 2.6.32-9

In the Lucid repositories ... I'm getting 15-30 updates almost everyday.

As for how the new Xubuntu Lucid desktop looks:
"The alphas and even the betas will all "look" and in some ways "feel" like the previous release because Ubuntu doesn't add the themes until the last couple beta releases. I think I've discussed this here before. But yeah, a slick theme obviously isn't on Ubuntu's list of priorities." -- OSTalk Forums