Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 Released

By: Gelembjuk

Gelembjuk — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:05:10 +0000

Hi slumbergod,
You wrote you had crackling sound and you fixed it “by commenting out a line in a config file”

I have the same problem. What did you do? What did you comment?

By: HP 6730S

HP 6730S — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:06:37 +0000

Im really sorry that i have to agree with Mohan who said that the battery life is bad for karmic koala version, im consider also to return back to 9.04 and the only reason for that is the BAD BAD BAD battery life

By: ZAMIR

ZAMIR — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:10:19 +0000

Nice, I like it..
Firefox hangs frequently after suffering a CPU spike (it doesn’t appear to be flash or a corrupt profile though);

Laptop fan frequently maxes out even when CPU is doing nothing (I suspect something to do with Intel drivers again – can you blame me after Jaunty!!);

By: HealthyBoy

HealthyBoy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:41:10 +0000

i’m still waiting for the next LTS release…
but, this koala is a temptation…need to learn more about this release..

By: Beerloverme

Beerloverme — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:01:23 +0000

I Performed a Clean Installation of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” In My EeePC 901 Using Ext4 Filesystem, Works Great So Far And The PulseAudio Is Fantastic “Loud & Clear” But The Touch Pad Gesture Functions “Like Scroll Up & Down Using Two Fingers” Is Not Functioning In This Version. Overall Performance is Good.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:57:04 +0000

My favorite feature of 9.10 is bluetooth A2DP support! It finally works out the box, and it works really well w/ PulseAudio. It was extremely easy to setup too!

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:52:10 +0000

I am really like 9.10 a lot, but on my HP notebook it didn’t give good battery life so I rolled back to 9.04. Other than that, I love Pulse audio as it actually works with my card well, love new boot up and the log on screen. What I am looking forward to is boxee to be updated as I want to update my eeebox so it can take advantage of teh kernel mode setting. I think the new software center is awesome and puts a foundataion down for what Canonical want to do with it with later release. Overall it an excellent release, by far the best Ubuntu release IMHO.

By: kenden

kenden — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:54:55 +0000

Good review!
It’s strange that the improvements to the sound in are barely mentioned in the release notes. In my opinion, it is the biggest improvement in this version. The sound ‘Just Works’ and the settings are easy to use. It used to take me hours of twitching the settings to get the sound working after each upgrade, even before pulse audio was introduced. This is big!

For me, finally having the much faster Firefox 3.5 is also a big plus of Ubuntu 9.10 (Chromium is still quite unstable on my machine).

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:05:33 +0000

Good to see you are still posting!

On the surface, I found performing a clean install of Karmic to be a smoother experience than it was for Jaunty. Having used it for a few days now I am aware of a few annoying issues:
1. crackling sound – initially, I thought oh no!! pulse audio but Xubuntu didn’t have it this time around. It was a problem with the Intel HDA chip easily fixed by commenting out a line in a config file);
2. Firefox hangs frequently after suffering a CPU spike (it doesn’t appear to be flash or a corrupt profile though);
3. Laptop fan frequently maxes out even when CPU is doing nothing (I suspect something to do with Intel drivers again – can you blame me after Jaunty!!);
4. generally sluggish feel…noticably more sluggish having come from Xubuntu Jaunty

I think Karmic is a step forward but I still think Canonical should slow down and make sure things are right first!