Impressive RC!!

[MoonRise]

Just tried the Live CD on my lappy! Very smooth a flawless. The network widget in the tray has come along real nicely. Plymouth seemed to behave as well. The Live CD Options to "Try" or "Install" is nicely done as well. I liked the fact that KINFOCENTER was there by default. All in all I saw nothing but good things out of this one. I wasn't going to upgrade and just stick with the LTS but this hooked me. I'll be upgrading.

[Snowhog]

Re: Impressive RC!!

I'll let you be my 'lab rat' and see how long it takes you to make it through the maze, or die from the 'new dosage'!

[verndog]

Re: Impressive RC!!

MoonRise, I was impressed also with the pre-final beta. Prior to 28Sep ISO, we had ubiquity troubles. that lasted for several days. I always zsync the previous days ISO and install the new ISO. Somewhere around ubiquity version 2.4.1 we couldn't install anything. It went straight to live desktop bypassing the CD Options. Since version 2.4.3 it works flawlessly.

I'm real impressed with the new look and feel of the system.

[craig10x]

Re: Impressive RC!!

I was running the live cd of the RC today and was also very impressed...Even though i currently run Mint 9 KDE i am pretty tempted to install this when the "final" iso comes out next week...It felt very smooth and polished...and i can't believe how much they have improved the (former "sucky") KPackageKit! I wasn't even tempted to add on the package manager..it worked that well! Looks much better too...in fact, sort of reminds me of the Ubuntu Software Center, with nice descriptions of many of the applications...

It ran very smooth and seemed pretty bug free to me...I started with Ubuntu 2 years ago, did some distro hopping and eventually ended up on Linux Mint Gnome and just recently went to their KDE version and got "hooked" on KDE...
Now that i've checked out Kubuntu 10.10 i must say, i am very tempted to come back to the "fold" so to speak

Looks like they finally gave Kubuntu some love

[oblivion]

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Well, Kubuntu 10.10 RC is fast, smooth and runs flawless with xorg-radeon drivers + galliıum 3d. Finally I have even the cool "blur" effect enabled on radeon driver One thing that I miss is a Kubuntu specific theme. I'm jealous of how Ubuntu gets new slick, good looking and consistent themes with every release and kubuntu always comes bare-naked. I like default KDE look too, but it is kde, not kubuntu.

[MoonRise]

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That is one reason I use Kubuntu. I agree the default is "normal" but I change it immediately to my tastes and all with the help of KDE-Look and KDE's awesome ability to let you customize. I'm definitely upgrading today!

@Snowhog -- I'll let you know when I exit!

[rperodin]

Re: Impressive RC!! Question about installer...

Does the installer give you the options of immediately downloading updates and restricted files like Ubuntu 10.10??

[The Liquidator]

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Yes it does

[craig10x]

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Did you have it install the codecs during installation, using that option? If you did, was it the Kubuntu Restricted Extras Package which includes EVERYTHING (except for the encypted dvd codec which you can get from medibuntu's website)...

I was just wondering, because i will likely be installing when the final comes out, and wanted to know if it was a good move to use it...

[The Liquidator]

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Well, no actually. That was because of my laziness tbh. I have a wpa wireless connection and didn't bother to set it up during the install as I knew (?) that when I rebooted the settings were already there in home, and it would connect up then, which indeed turned out to be the case.


IIRC it simply referred to flash and mp3.

[oblivion]

Re: Impressive RC!!

Did you have it install the codecs during installation, using that option? If you did, was it the Kubuntu Restricted Extras Package which includes EVERYTHING (except for the encypted dvd codec which you can get from medibuntu's website)...

I was just wondering, because i will likely be installing when the final comes out, and wanted to know if it was a good move to use it...

I did. It does not install "kubuntu-restricted-extras package", but it installs "kubuntu-restricted-addons". They are different packages. In addons package, you get MP3 flash etc but you don't get MS ttf core fonts. You still have to install them manually via "extras" package after setup.

[craig10x]

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Oh..ok.... good to know...thanks
I think i will do an after installation of the "Restricted Extras" package then...only takes a few minutes...

By the way...i noticed that the "Ubuntu Font" is now included in 10.10 as of the release candidate...
which would mean of course, it will be in the final version...

[verndog]

Re: Impressive RC!!

Just in case you haven't downloaded the RC . You might want to get todays build (10-01-2010) or use zsync. An updated ubiquity ver 2.4.4, and over 80megs updated files as well over the RC.

[kyonides]

Re: Impressive RC!!

It isn't really impressive IMHO because it still let X crash if I configure a window to maximize (v & h) by force or if I change the refresh rate. Some System Settings options also make it crash. The only good thing the beta didn't have was that it now remembers the last username entered in the login screen. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that ksplashx always crashes.

[MoonRise]

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OK. A few quirks, but all in all I'm impressed and pleased. At first it was VERY slow getting to the desktop. Don't know why. I disabled a few start ups I had and also stopped Nepomuk Search Module. That seem to get the speed back up. I'll look into the why a little bit later. The second problem is Plymouth, yet again. It was doing great up until I installed the Proprietary Video driver (NVidia, Desktop system in sig below). That improved further the Desktop speed, but Plymouth is back to a very ugly start up screen. So I guess it will be back to the fix posted somewhere here. Other than that, everything is smooth.

Cheers!