Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala

By: Ian Hogben

Ian Hogben — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:23:49 +0000

Hi James,

Nice article, and very nice desktop! I know that this isn’t what you posted on, but I am also interested in the theme that you are using. Out of curiosity, how did you change your distributor-logo image? Mine is not changing even when I replace the file. Did you do something different?

Thanks,
Ian.

By: Nick cairns

Nick cairns — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:13:46 +0000

Just install it through the update manager , im doing it as we speak on a msi wind ill tell ya how it goes

By: Kenny Schiff

Kenny Schiff — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:49:18 +0000

How stable is unstable? my issues with the Intel GM965 chipset in 9.04 don’t exactly lead to stablity. I’m considering making the jump. One would imagine that Karmic is reasonably far along at this point.

I had installed Gnome-Do a while ago after seeing a bunch of folks rave about it, but didn’t see what the excitement was, until I figured out that you really need the “Docky” theme to take advantage of it. Problem for me is that because of the Intel GM965 chipset and I’d turned off the appearance elements that would allow for this type of enhancement. Because I wanted to play with Docky, I turned them back on, only to create some wierdness that I hadn’t been seeing with effects turned off.

Anyway, do I take the plunge? and if so, do I wipe and start anew?

By: James McMinn

James McMinn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:40:16 +0000

The fonts are Droid Sans (sudo apt-get install ttf-droid), Size 9 with Subpixel Smoothing and Slight hinting. I love them.

The email notifier isn’t an email notifier as such it’s “indicator applet” which gives me notifications from Pidgin and Evolution.

By: Ali Sheikh

Ali Sheikh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:43:04 +0000

What are the fonts that you are using in the screenshot? They look wonderful.

By: Leonardo Bernardes

Leonardo Bernardes — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:51:47 +0000

What’s the name of this email notifier? Where can I find it?

By: Jim March

Jim March — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:32:25 +0000

There also appear to be fixes relating to Network Manager and WiFi. Even with Jaunty it would sometimes try to connect to a router but somehow “forget” the password and substitute a long string of characters (that don’t work) instead. That issue appears to be fully gone in Karmic. Debian has long considered the Network Manager 7.x code “alpha” and not worthy of distribution even in Sid I think…that may have changed recently, I dunno, but the fact was NM7 was buggier than an ant farm.

The version of Network Manager I’ve got in Karmic right now is “0.7.995″, which probably means it’s a release candidate or late beta for 8. So far it’s been 100% for me – the first time I’ve seen that with the NM7 series.

By: devolute

devolute — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:44:13 +0000

Good round up, thanks. Unfortunately, despite the impression your screenshot may give, they’ve not dropped the bloody orange!

By: Dave F

Dave F — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:42:34 +0000

Got to agree with improvements for intel graphics, using an acer 5720 laptop and the upgrade to 9.10 has made a huge a difference, very happy.

Also support for my Atheros wireless chipset is finally working perfectly, it worked in 9.04 but I expereienced regular cut out’s and speed restricitions.

Nice to see some really good improvements in 9.10 after a somewhat lackluster 9.04

Gnome-Do is great, I use it every day, I just wish docky had some more options on the appearance side of things, I wish I could turn the backgroudn off.

Also big shout out to all the other Linux Dave’s! w00t!

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:36:46 +0000

FWIW, the touchpad change is part of GNOME and is already available in Fedora 11.