Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released

[heart reaper]

nice.

funny wallpaper though..

[Kees]

Just in from iHackintosh:

"Canonical released Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on 29 October 2009 and is Canonicals eleventh release of the distribution and will be supported until April 2011. The desktop installation of Ubuntu 9.10 includes, among other programs, GIMP 2.6, GNOME 2.28, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Open Office.org 3.1, Linux 2.6.31, X.Org 7.5 and Empathy Instant Messenger instead of Pidgin. The default file system is ext4. By the following tutorial, you’ll be able to install Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC to perform the install. Once you complete the process you can install and boot Ubuntu 9.10 from your portable device. As usual the tool is created by the pendrivelinux team.

Ubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive :

Download Here or Here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/run-pen...09-in-windows/ and launch u9.10p.exe, extracting to your PC. A U910pfolder is automatically created

Place the Ubuntu 9.10 ISO in the U910p folder on your computer

From the U910p folder on your PC, click U910.bat and follow the on screen instructions


4. Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot".

Note: the download is well over 500 MB.

[samba_siva_raju]

Installed Ubuntu 9.10 few days back in my VirtualBox running on windows xp. Looks great and no issues so far.

[hellnoire]

My review of Ubuntu 9.10. Long story short... I like it.

[skism]

tried the live cd yesterday and being the first time i have ever tried linux i was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.i will wait for linux mint 8 to come out and try that as well,i think i might actually install one of these

[johnshaw1917]

Installed 9.10 a couple of days ago and think I like 9.04 better. 9.10 doesn't seem to like my lan card very much and web browsing and downloads are very slow. I know its not my internet service, because when I boot up Windows XP, things work fine.

[brayden]

hehe sorry this thread is a little old.. anyway I am on karmic koala and i must say it is AWESOME. my windows 7 disc came today and i did an upgrade over vista. the upgrade took forever but worked flawlessly (except for some reason nvidia drivers believed my left screen was on the right of my desk and vice versa for the other) but it was slow beyond belief. my typing lagged, I watched a vid i have in WMP that was mkv and the FPS on it was horrible, i never got that with the "slow vista" so i ended up snapping in the end and re installing GRUB 2 with my karmic beta disc and now i'm LOVING it to death still. I have heaps of compiz effects enabled that far surpass those of windows 7 graphics and yet my video is flawless and while my GPU does get a little hot it still runs much better. I hadn't had much issue with compatibility despite it is a 64bit platform i'm on with 6gb of ram. karmic bootup times on the live disc is much much more bearable and it boots really quick generally. my load averages drop to scary lows and I hadn't had any trouble compiling, things like unrealircd worked fine, my internet seemed somehow faster because of the fast page rendering now that firefox can eat up more of my quad core. I think karmic koala deserves more than applause or cheers. and if you hate it, then i hate you (just joking ).

It had a few bugs with gnome when i first got the beta and also dpkg errors but in the updates leading up close to the release they fixed the bugs. it also recognises my core i7 cpu temp and chipsets etc. on my asus p6t which was a problem in jaunty, i did compile lm sensors 3 for this though.

THe audio is much better too with individual application control of volume that was first featured in vista as i understand. also they packaged empathy IM client instead of pidgin. i don't feel that as a good idea as empathy doesn't support as many protocals but it is still good. it is like the ONLY third party client i've seen for google talk that actually supports the use of the mic, which is great I haven't tried S/PDIF audio (yet) though so i can't really rate on the support of that but it HAS to be better than jaunty as it sure as hell coudln't get much worse.

I did try an upgrade from jaunty to karmic but it failed, nothing much out of the ordinary i assume from what i've heard.