Impressions of Lucid Beta

[Mark Greenwood]

On Monday 19 Apr 2010 14:12:58 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.

Yep I agree with this one. I did a fresh install of the beta alongside 2 other Linuxes, and the only one that now boots is Kubuntu.
> 
> 2. Kontact is broken. The akonadi server does not start and you will not have 
> access to your contacts.

Not for me, it works perfectly. Nepomuk, however, had to be disabled as it slowed the machine to a crawl.
 
> 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.

Works for me. And you don't need samba anyway unless you have Windows machines on your network.

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

Haven't had Dolphin crash on me and I've been using it heavily.

> 
> 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'd add the fact that pulseaudio is still seriously broken in KDE and there seems to be no way to fix it. 

On the whole however I'd say it works better than the Karmic Beta did when I first installed that. 

Mark