Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

[stevedundee]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

I am getting frequent crashes in which I am sent back to a console logon screen. I can sometimes logon here but almost as soon as I am on the screen goes black apart from a static cursor in the top left. If I press my off button, I normally (not always) get a clean shutdown. This is happening every 30 minutes or so (though the interval varies a lot).

I am using the standard desktop install (not the netbook one) on an eeePC 901. My 10.04 beta was installed from USB stick as a fresh install but still using my /home partition from 9.10 (on which I was running KDE4.4).

No one else seems to be reporting this but it is too frequent to be ignored. Am I alone??!

Steve
PS - other than that, I really do like it. The boot speed is incredible!

[GreyGeek]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

You should give your problem a new thread and just leave this one for your impressions of Lucid.
Thanks!

[stevedundee]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

OK, fair enough! Though I have not had a crash since just before I made my post - I guess it got fixed by the daily updates. So I am left only with very positive impressions of 10.04:

- Very fast to start up.
- Everything (apart from Firefox sometimes) feels snappy to use.
- Desktop and the fonts size themselves nicely for my small netbook screen.
- The nasty Intel video driver crashes seem to have gone away... might be too early to say.

Criticisms? Well perhaps there is little point in installing Konqueror as the default browser - it never works with many key sites that I use regularly (possibly not through its own fault admittedly - some sites just get uppity about browsers they don't quite recognise). It would be better to have Firefox installed from the very beginning. That way, "normal" users (Windows refugees) would not be confused, and perhaps put off, by the blue "Web Browser" menu option that doesn't work for them.

Also, I am not convinced by the netbook edition. I suppose some folk must feel that layout is needed on small screens (Dell use a similar-looking interface on their Linux netbooks), What I would rather the netbook edition did was concentrate on delivering KDE without soaking up so much disk space. Perhaps more hardware detection at start up to be more selective about gets installed?

Sorry, rabbiting.

Steve

[tinsami1]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

A for me as far as beta versions goes. Bugs are expected (and encountered and, importantly, reported) and hoped they get fixed when the final/gold version is released. I'm using it in one laptop and testing out the netbook edition as well.

[dtr]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

I gave it a A, as I don't seem to have any more problems with this Beta than I did with the 9.10, In fact besides the a few apps that reportedly crash nearly every time when I login, everything else seems to be working just fine.

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

If I could I would degrade to B- because of this:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3110694.0

[vista killer]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

Beta 2 and the things are much better from beta 1. The system now is more stable and i dont have anymore high cpu usage.
the good:
- very fast, stable, not too much cpu usage

the bad:

-suspend is not working
-not correct plymouth with nvidia driver. It is in low resolution
-akonadi error with mysql and dbus in first login

[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

Everything hunky dory here

Except it takes longer to log in than to boot

[hunkirdowne]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

Except it takes longer to log in than to boot

Hmmm.... I suppose there may be a way to increase the boot time. :^)

Seriously though, boot is seriously fast fo sho!

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm running this on some pretty old hardware. My gut tells me the difference in the capability of the hardware will make a difference in boot times, but not as much of a difference as it did before and that might be due to 'hal' not being used at boot.

I don't know if that made any sense grammatically much less technically. I'm just waking up and haven't had my second cup of coffee (because the boot is too fast :^).

[Demibeard]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

Hi, first post from a long-ish time lurker.

I have applied the 10.04 update in three scenarios, Acer Aspire One Netbook, format fresh install with Beta 1, no issues what-so-ever, the updates have come thick and fast and is still working without a hitch.

I had kubuntu 9.10 running on my main PC booting from a 120gig USB HDD and a 40gig 'DD' backup copy.

I've just finished upgrading the 120gig to 10.04, had couple of issues (wrong resolution on the updated nVidia driver (what's with the plymouth ugly splash screen?) and a missing KDM theme that dropped me back to a terminal login prompt). Fixed those problems with this really useful forum, thank you all.

The 40gig 'Backup' installed perfectly and is running fine, obviously with the same hardware, quite odd.

I did update the 120gig from the Alternate Install CD and the 40gig from the 'update-notifier-kde -d' method.

As I'm running an x64 setup I had to remove the lib32asound2 file before either update would proceed.

I'm very impressed with Kubuntu, I had been a long time supporter and occasional user of OpenSUSE, but the switch to Kubuntu has been joyous and simple, so much so I haven't used the Redmond OS in over 3 months.

I know this really isn't the place but as a convert from windows, one thing that for me just illustrates how good this Linux/KDE/Kubuntu/K3b thing is was when I popped an Audio CD into the drive. I opened Dolphin and was presented with not only the Audio CD, but with separate folders for CDA, FLAC, Full CD, Information, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and the Wav files.

Now I'm not sure who or what is responsible for this it might even be magic, but that's just fantastic, I just drag and drop the files/folder to my HDD for really easy ripping. I'm just giddy, I don't recall windows doing that for me.

Thank you to all the Linux Gurus who have unwittingly helped me so far.

[kapil]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

lots of praises for LL
i m curious...but will try it after my exams..
can you please put in the approx boot time of LL..

@demibeard: for windoze transitioner it is really welcome change.. completely agree.

[hunkirdowne]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

lots of praises for LL
i m curious...but will try it after my exams..
can you please put in the approx boot time of LL..

@demibeard: for windoze transitioner it is really welcome change.. completely agree.

Less than two minutes from when I pushed the power button and I began typing this reply. A good bit of that time was BIOS boot strapping and I actually had interface in probably right around the 90 second mark. I suppose a more modern system might be a bit quicker. This is circa 2003 vintage.

[Nikos Alexandris]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

Kubuntu Lucid Beta2 64bit feels on an Macbook Pro 5,1 _much_ faster than Karmic and this is really great. However, there are blocker-bugs (stuff related to dbus, policykit, auto-mounting external devices, KPackageKit not working as expected, Network Management seems to be broken).

If those _basic_ stuff will work without tweaking after installation, then Kubuntu Lucid will be impressive.

Regards, Nikos

[vinnywright]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

uped to beta2 last night I gess as thare were 240+ updates and 3 new packages......

the onley glitch I seam to have at this point is if a disk check runs off at boot it will get to about 78-80% and then the screen blanks and stays that way............untill I ctrl>alt>F6 then eather log in/startx/whatever or ctrl>alt>delete to reboot.

@kapil ........grub>login=24.02sec. login>FULLY loaded desktop=42.23sec.

VINNY

[14tjoyce]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 Beta Impressions

I think it slowed down my boot time a bit on my laptop... But it fixed audio problems and DVD playback so I'll live with the boot time. And other than it randomly logging me off a couple times I've experienced no other bugs! No wait scratch that, when it comes back from hibernate or sleep the login box is just a blank square but I can just type my password and it does unlock the screen. Overall: No complaints!