http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/ Engadget Comments for Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released, could decide your OS fate http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
My music server has been running on Ubuntu for last 2 years - can't wait to upgrade it!]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
And for those interested - they didn't do away with the Add/Remove Programs option - it's just deeper within the menu button. Synaptic is still there, too.

It's not an amazing update from Jaunty - but represents a worthwhile progression.]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
I'm a Karmic Koala user and I can tell the experience has been wonderful so far, It had some bugs but I'm using the release candidate version. I can't wait to install the final release, will be tonight I hope. I also have it installed on a USB key, it boots and shutdown fast, using the USB key just because I want to be able to load my own OS regardless if I'm in a different system, try that with OSX or Windows... ]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
That many?]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Does it mean anything? No.
Grow up, get a life, whatever...]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
You're right. But the Intel seems to be fixed in Jaunty, too - right? I have Intel graphics on my laptop, and the Compiz performance was originally excluded -- then I did the workaround and it worked OK -- and sometime between then and now it's become top-notch. I figured that it had been fixed.

@EI8HT
You got downranked because your question seems condescending. Maybe you didn't mean it that way. It probably is less than 1 percent who use Ubuntu, and the average Windows user probably shouldn't switch. But this blog is the kind of place where a lot of users "get" Ubuntu and other Linux distros.]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
you're right, desktop marketshare is probably around 1%, but a majority of the websites you visit are probably hosted on linux. most handheld gadgets use linux in one form or another, like mp3 players and gps units. with the number on android phones on the way, i would say linux is becoming pretty successful. these devices all have a specific purpose, so it is easier to forgive that they aren't windows. hopefully netbooks will open this up more, as distros like moblin 2 serve the netbook's purpose better than fullblown windows.

i think most people are tied to one or two apps that make full-time linux a dealbreaker, but virtualization is helping with that.

cheers to conanical, it is good to see innovation and competition, no matter what os you use.]]>Oct 29th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
For me while i am using Windows 7 on my primary PC, i use Ubuntu in my HTPC , i also use Ubuntu in a virtual PC from time to time. ]]>Oct 29th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Competitor_than_Apple

]]>Oct 29th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Sorry Mark and other Microsoft Fannie boys, some people have applications for *nix based security and no registry to screw with all day. It just works.

]]>Oct 29th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
I fall into this camp. If Adobe would release a Linux version of CS4, I would switch in a heartbeat. Dare to dream.]]>Oct 29th 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Hey, you never know: maybe the geeks who dig Linux will actually get behind Ubuntu and make it the de facto standard which would give it a chance. But no, they'll probably be too busy promoting yet another tedious variation on a theme.

As for operating systems, I'm agnostic but not unrealistic.]]>Oct 29th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Awesome!]]>Oct 29th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/But in all seriousness most people just surf the web, and since so many people can't even be bothered to switch from IE to Chrome or Firefox 3.5 even though they're not any harder to use and a bajillion times faster means that there's no chance in hell they'd switch to linux especially when all the programs they need are already in Windows. And frankly there's still a lot of things that really only run on Windows so I'd only dual boot or run a VM at best.
For server use though there's really no comparison with the kind of performance you get on normal, budget, hardware. Linux is way better, although honestly a lot of the best stuff is still run straight up command line and editing various files in emacs or pico or whatever.]]>Oct 29th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Or supports standards at all, instead of having to be (in the words of one of MS's IE project managers) "tricked into executing correctly using test cases."

Also I would like to point out that linux is not only popular on computers but on "non computers". Android and other cell phone OSs are linux based. I think the PS3s OS is linux based (can't remember). And so forth. Ultimately that is what will drive up the software quality in linux.

However, my biggest problem with distributions of Linux is that they are generally an atrocity to look at. I don't want to work with Windows 95 beta anymore. There are a lot of other issues that are at hand before Linux becomes a popular OS, but the amount of ugly is one of the bigger ones. Most don't look marketable (Mint does, which is basically Ubuntu with a pretty interface, but even Mint isn't that good looking), which is a key reason the Mac OS is growing so fast.

Just in case you are wondering, I'm a lifetime Windows user who has used (for work and school) Linux based OSs. ]]>Oct 30th 2009 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
I think you're confusing IE and Safari. As for 'standards' go away and find out with 'de facto' means. In business no-one really gives a shit about W3C.]]>Oct 30th 2009 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 30th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Yeah, like my company. If our product isn't working on IE6/IE7/IE8/whatever because the browser doesn't adhere to W3C... we tell our customers to point the middle finger at Microsoft. Not our problem.

Its really, attitudes like yours which fragment technologies and cause both the customer and me personal headache. I don't worry or care too much, because people like you are getting buried by Google by the minute.]]>Oct 30th 2009 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

It's being worked on.]]>Nov 1st 2009 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Nov 2nd 2009 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Every time I attempted to update it it on 9.04, it'd mess up my flash installation.]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Unfortunately no, I don't know which version 9.10 is using, but I can check tonight when I get home.]]>Oct 29th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Messed with 4front's implementation wich uses OSS for a while but still no success.]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/In general, 9.04 sucked for sound, and they once again had a half-done KDE installation. Both are reasons why I use OpenSuSE instead. Notably, however, sound hasn't been much of a pleasant experience on 11.1 either.]]>Oct 30th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/
Beware of my next patch, for Lusty Luchador!]]>Oct 29th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.kerrydean.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/wolf-inspirational-quotes-messages.jpg]]>Oct 29th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 29th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 30th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-launching-today-could-decide-your-fu/Oct 31st 2009 4:49PM