Impressions of Lucid Beta

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday, April 19, 2010, H van Rensburg wrote:
> These are my impressions of Lucid beta or the upcoming 10.04. Decided to
> post it here because it has several serious problems and anybody upgrading
> should be careful.
> 
> The issues I found are:
> 
> 1. Grub is broken. If you have a dual boot configuration with win, do not
> upgrade. You will get kubuntu 10.04 and can see win in the grub menu, but
> it only resets the computer if chosen.
> 

Not here on at least  4 machines.   Works as it always did.


> 2. Kontact is broken. The akonadi server does not start and you will not
> have access to your contacts.

I had the Kontact problem.  Removed Akonadi and re-installed.  Works ok now.

> 
> 3. Networking is broken. Samba cannot be installed due to unmet
> dependencies. This means you will not be able to share files, see other
> computers on your network or print to a network printer.

Samba running fine here on several machines.


> 
> 4. I also found several smaller problem of programs (Dolphin and others)
> which crashes and have to be restarted.
> 

Don't use Dolphin

> Did reports all the bugs. Hope it saves someone some time here as the final
> release data is around the corner on 29 April and there are a lot of work
> to do to fix these.

I think you are trashing a good release.  I have no outstanding problems.