I like how they blamed the software center UI for repo slowness. Clearly a well thought out article. Dan --- Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Open Standards! Sent from Gainesville, FL, United States <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Patrick Goetz <<a href="mailto:pgoetz@mail.utexas.edu">pgoetz@mail.utexas.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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: <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html" target="_blank">http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html</a> 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 (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/392136" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/392136</a>) and that the network applet, nm-applet still doesn't work in a multi-user context: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/284596" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/284596</a> Either of these is a deal killer for some significant fraction of users (e.g. dual booters or household shared PC users, respectively). -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>