Impressions of Lucid Beta

[Mark Fraser]

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.

Did a new install on a spare hard drive and not using Windows so the new GRUB 
seems OK.

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

Have noticed that, keep having to close Kontact down and restart it to get 
access to 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.

Haven't tried that yet.

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

Not using Dolphin as I prefer Konqueror.

Some things I've noticed:

Can't use Freeguide as there is a problem with Manip bug 544522.

Mplayer and SMplayer report errors if I use vdpau.

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