[wellylug] Critical Review of Karmic Koala

[Cliff Pratt]

Roger Searle wrote:
> 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.
>
No, I meant an upgrade from one version of Windows to the next version 
of Windows. There isn't one.
 >
> 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.
> 
What issues do you have with Flash? I see a massive start button that 
wasn't there before upgrading to KK and some sites don't work properly - 
FarmTown in Facebook being one of them. They seem to get stuck and the 
images become 'seperated' into (presumably) their programmed components 
eg a status bar doesn't work and has the bar and the components one 
under the other.

Cheers,

Cliff