[wellylug] Critical Review of Karmic Koala

[Roger Searle]

Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Roger Searle wrote:
>   
>> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7600/1.html
>>
>>     
>> Unfortunately this is a good article - certainly reflects my own 
>> experience of Karmic upgrades or fresh installs.  And of Jaunty and 
>> Intrepid and Hardy and.....  Fortunate are those in the claimed 10% who 
>> have a flawless install...
>>     
>  >
> I've never had a problem with a clean install. I accept the pain of an 
> upgrade, since that other operating system offers *no* upgrade path.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>   
By upgrade, I'm not meaning from windows, if that's that you're saying?! 
It's the Intrepid > Jaunty > Karmic I'm referring to, which does have an 
upgrade path.

And to be fair, if I remove from the equation issues with flash, 
vmware-server and a DNS issue related to a d-link router (that 9.04 was 
OK with), all of which could be argued to not be KK issues, then the 
fresh install (using an existing /home partition) on this particular box 
would have "just worked". 

The other side of this though, is that you can't claim a "ready for the 
desktop" distro and give disks to friends and family if they have no 
sound watching a youtube video or even get on the internet.  That's a 
really bad look.  Doesn't stop me though, I've even gone an entire 
release with unresolved sound issues on flash (I didn't care THAT much 
at the time), and won't stop me putting it on someone else's machine so 
long as I can be there to hold their hand and sort through what ever arises.

Cheers,
Roger