Thursday, November 05, 2009

Interested in the progress of Ubuntu 10.04?

Here's a good place to follow what's happening.

It looks like the Lucid Lynx repositories are already open - just in case you were feeling slightly suicidal.

However, at this point there is usually a small flood of updates backed up from Karmic freeze, and then a steady stream of new updates as development progresses. New features generally won't appear until later in the development cycle and things usually go a bit quiet while UDS takes place. Most of the devs are discussing and planning, not coding at this time.

Karmic Koala is that good that I am happy to wait until later before taking the plunge to Lucid Lynx.

But for now - watching others with less impulse control is a good substitute. And you get to see when stuff breaks.


Monday, November 02, 2009

What is the longest living Ubuntu system?

I was wondering whether the was anyone who has an Ubuntu system that had been upgraded from the first version of Ubuntu (Hoary, I think) all the way to Karmic Koala?

Is that even possible?

What is the longest surviving upgraded-only Ubuntu system that you know of?

Friday, September 18, 2009

Ubuntu Karmic Koala - New Boot Splash Screen

Alpha 6 has brought another change to the look. You can see a video here.

It looks a little dark.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Ubuntu Karmic Koala gets Ubuntu Software Store

Just updated my Karmic Koala installation which now includes the Ubuntu Software Store on the System menu.

Here are a few screen captures:





Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Stolen blog post

Hmmm. Seems like someone has reproduced one of my posts and passed it off as their own work.

The "author" clearly doesn't want to be contacted because you are not able to leave any comments and there are no contact details.

This blog post shamelessly copies - word-for-word - a 2007 post from this blog. If you are the owner of this blog, please contact me.

Regards

Warren

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Ubuntu - Karmic Koala - So it begins...

If you enjoyed the journey to Jaunty Jackalope, you can follow Karmic Koala from the start.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Ubuntu Jaunty - Codec Helper is more helpful

This must be a recent change. Having just done a reinstall using Alpha 4, I noticed that the codec helper screen has been re-organised. This layout is much cleaner, clearer, and more helpful.


The previous incarnation (I can't find a screenshot of it now) provided a list of possible packages of which you had to install one or more. The whole thing wasn't as clear as it could be.

This is much better.