To turn Karmic, or remain Jaunty?

[Bill Cox]

Short answer: Wait for Ubuntu 10.4 LTE.  Unless you're just too curious.

Having gotten Jaunty working for you means you're good at hacking the
system a bit.  I think Karmic is similar in effort as Jaunty, but
everyone's experience seems to vary a lot.  The thing is, I don't see
any major draw for Karmic over Jaunty for blind/VI users who already
have a stable system working well with Orca.

Ubuntu 10.4 (release April next year), will be a long-term-support
edition, which means the focus is on stability.  A ton of stuff that's
broken in Karmic, like resume from suspend, video driver problems,
etc, will be fixed in the next release.

That said, I just couldn't help myself, and I went ahead and upgraded
my Jaunty x64 laptop.  My effort to just "dist-upgrade" failed pretty
badly, but my system was pretty heavily modified already.  The clean
install worked, except for the noted problems with pulseaudio (a big
PITA, frankly).  If you're like me, you'll go through a similar
process, simply because we're so damed curious about what's in the
latest and greatest distro.  I like it.  The Software Center is
interesting, with fascinating potential.  I'm waiting for Canonical to
allow paid-applications on it, which would send a real jolt through
the linux world, one we need IMO.  Some minor goobers in Jaunty are
cleaned up.  Shutdown speed is amazing, and boot isn't bad.  VPN in
Network Manager is currently broken for me, but use to work, and I use
gnome-alsa-mixer since the volume control is broken (since you have to
remove pulseaudio).  Now and then the system crashes when I restart X,
like when I log out.  The speech performance isn't bad with alsa and
speech-dispatcher.  I use voxin for the voice, so I don't know if
espeak is still causing speech-dispatcher crashes.  It works well with
voxin.

Bill

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Dave Hunt <dave.hunt2 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Given all the trouble with sound in Karmic, especially as regards Orca
> and speech, is there anything to recommend upgrading from a stable
> Jaunty system?  Are there enough other improvements to justify all the
> effort needed in order to overcome the sound issues?  If I decide that
> an upgrade is worth the trouble, what think you of my doing an in-place
> upgrade, rather than a clean re-install?
>
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> Thanks for your thought,
>
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> Dave  H.
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