Impressions of Lucid Beta

Girard Henri girardhenri at free.fr
Mon Apr 19 16:28:19 UTC 2010


Le lundi 19 avril 2010 à 15:12 +0200, H van Rensburg a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> 2. Kontact is broken. The akonadi server does not start and you will not have 
> access to your contacts.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 4. I also found several smaller problem of programs (Dolphin and others) which 
> crashes and have to be restarted.
> 
> 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.
> Quiete strange ? I use lucida for about 2 months now and I have no problem with updating i am very surprised with 
the quality of it







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