karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

[Chris Cheney]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 17:13 -0600, Patrick Goetz 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.

If its anything like what I see on ext3, I have been plagued by that for
many years. I have heard rumors 2.6.32 in Lucid traded off some
performance to hopefully finally fix this issue, I sure hope so anyway.

> 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).