karmic problem is fixed but here is another one

Mgr. Janusz Chmiel chmiel at phil.muni.cz
Tue Jun 16 15:20:06 BST 2009


Dear users,

    Yes, The restart keyboard short cut for restarting Gnome has been 
removed also from Ubuntu Jaunty. But please, keep in mynd, that You are 
allowed to use CTRL+ALT+F1 to activate console while Gnome is being used, 
You can type Your user name and password, then You will be able to use 
special command for manipulating with Gnome, including exit of this desktop 
environment. Please, try to study documentation for command gnome-session.

You are even able to install yasr while You will be used console for those 
commands for exitting Gnome, You will have a Feetback.

I occurred software problems while restart of Xserver has been presented in 
Ubuntu intrepid and in older releases of Ubuntu. The less dangerous effect 
has, that every next restart of Gnome caused higher temperature of my 
motherboard and that sped of CPU fan has increased.
There were even problems with Orca.

For now, i do not know about better Linux distro, which is being so good 
supported by The core developers to be usable by visually impaired 
community. Kernel has been specially optimized to reduce The CPU fan speed 
while running Ubuntu Jaunty, even special complex programmers modiffications 
has been made to whole Ubuntu architecture. Pulse Audio audio server is not 
more used while installing from A boot menu with accessibility features 
enabled.

The sound preferences function is really switching correctly between various 
audio servers, such as between Alsa and OSS.

Espeak is now reallay using The correspondent Audio server according to The 
server, which has been chosen from The preferences menu.


Debian leny Gnome-live CD from january of this year can not offer You 
installation of this CD to A hard drive, user must install Orca manually, 
The problems with root applications are also presented.

The update manager and Gnome menu in general is being very simple in Ubuntu 
Jaunty and in other Ubuntu distro.

Do not forget, that core developers of Ubuntu are constantly monitoring, if 
A new version of At-spi is awailable and if The significant changes has been 
made to At-spi infrastructure, users can use automatic updates feature.
Core developers of Ubuntu are doing their bbest to bring users The latest 
changes related to various audio servers, including alsa, OSS, Pulse audio.

Ubuntu Jaunty is even able to automatically install support for A 
corresponding language for braille devices, this has never been possible in 
The previous versions, and other LInux distros are not using this technique.

The random crashes of Espeak are reallly gone forever, even while using live 
CD, so You can safely use Gnome partition editor for manipulating with The 
disk partitions.
Many device drivers are included, including various models of scanners and 
multifunctioning devices, this is even possible in A .iso image of 
Gnome-live CD.

Ubuntu can be safely and stably installed, without random crashes of Espeak 
while installing.

Ubuntu can be installed while using braille support even in The live mode, 
if sound cart has not been correctly autodetected during booting up.

Ubuntu is including safety warnings related to The most modern Lion 
batteries in laptop, system will be turned of if a minimum safe stored power 
in The battery is awailable.

Safety warnings are also included in The power manager, if YOur Lion battery 
is too excharget, this can prevent from The fire on YOur flet.

So, really, everybody upgrade to Ubuntu Jaunty. Next future updates of 
included packages can be installed automatically.

Scim devices can be configured.
So, I Am wisching You much positive experiences while using Ubuntu Jaunty, 
and advanced users are welcomed during testing of Ubuntu Kalmic. But please 
be aware, that even complex changes can be made to vmlinus and other kernel 
related modules, so do not store important data to The experimental 
installation of this distro, which is being developed.





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