karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

[Tim Hawkins]

I dont know if it is relevant, but looking at the specs of the two "unstable" machines listed in the article, both had nVidia chipsets

The one machine (netbook) that they said worked perfectly had an Intel Graphics chipset. 

Given the amount of discussion relating to problems with the nVidia drivers in Karmic, could this be a factor in this review.? 


On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Shentino wrote:

> Indeed this list lately has been buzzing somewhat with grumpy messages regarding Karmic's bellyflop.
> 
> I must admit that some of mine could have been a bit less condescending than they were.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I've been out of the loop for a couple of months, so pardon me if this
> has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a
> TomsHardware.com review:
> 
>   http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html
> 
> Some of these issues (system freezes when copying large files on ext4)
> I've never heard of before.
> 
> My personal gripes with karmic were finding out that fakeraid now
> doesn't work at all, a regression caused by grub2
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/392136)
> and that the network applet, nm-applet still doesn't work in a
> multi-user context:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/284596
> 
> 
> Either of these is a deal killer for some significant fraction of users
> (e.g. dual booters or household shared PC users, respectively).
> 
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