10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic

[Dave Hall]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 07:43 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > ...
> > One good place to start is this blog post called "10 Useful Things to Do
> > After Installing Karmic Koala". I don't recommend doing all those 10
> > things, but doing 1, 3, 5, and 6 is probably a very good idea to have a
> > usable Ubuntu system. 
> >
> > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/10-useful-things-to-do-after-installing.html

Is #6 the latest attempt at automatrix with most of the same problems?

> That was an interesting read.  I have to say that for my laptop (a Dell 
> Latitude D830) on jaunty (i haven't upgraded yet), i found #2 
> (installing the proprietary driver for my NVIDIA graphics card) 
> essential.  If i didn't, dual screen never worked, and neither did power 
> management.

I have a dell d830 as well.  I went with the intel video card.  I have
full compiz running without any problems.  I have found karmic is pretty
good on my laptop.  I have dual screens working without a problem,
either in the d-dock, with a projector or external LCD.  Dual 1920x1200
with wobbly windows is always nice :)

It was stabler 2 weeks before launch than at launch, but that seems to
be the way with ubuntu releases from dapper onwards - it goes downhill
from the beta as rushed fixes introduce regressions.

Cheers

Dave