Fwd: Ubuntu 10.10 is Released

[Rajinder Yadav]

On 10-10-10 07:00 AM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> It's official, the release is *finally* out!
>

i've had a chance to install kubuntu x64 10.10 on my laptop running on 
vmware and it looks solid and runs smooth. the previous version 10.04 
would hang on me during shutdown or reboot.

test system
my hardware (HP pavilion dv7)
cpu intel i7 with 4GB of ram running on win7
kubuntu running in vmware about 1GB ram

on kubuntu 10.10 i've installed all my packages, compiled a few that i 
needed to have a working development platform, everything went smoothly.

i installed netbeans (a java hog-ware), had it running with firefox 
playing a music video on youtube and the performance on it was 
excellent, i could switch between apps, load web pages, create a simple 
rails app see it run and life is good.

audio works fine, to get amarok working with mp3 and streaming audio you 
will need to do the following

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras libxine-extracodecs

there seems to be a minor bug with flash, sometimes i need to refresh 
the browser to get flash to work, other than this i have not noticed any 
other annoying quirks

my current xubuntu 10.04 setup running xfce has been replaced with 
kubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, i am loving it!

i don't know if the new version runs faster than the previous, or if kde 
is more solid, etc. i plan to keep 10.04 on my desktop and not upgrade 
yet, as i see no reason to, i just didn't like xubunut on my laptop much.

i have to add this release went better then 10.04, i recall having 
issues with 10.04 for a while and, it took weeks for the initial bugs to 
get fixed before i was able to install a solid 10.04

-- 
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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