Impressions of Lucid Beta

[uriah heep]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM, H van Rensburg <hvralpha at intekom.co.za>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.
>
> 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.
>
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7 on
I am using lucid 32 bit and windows 7on an Acer 4730z  laptop without major
problems so far. am not on network so I can't speak to that. 2.17 dual core
intel and 3 gigs ram and its not slow

Uriah
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