<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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<div><br></div><div>The one machine (netbook) that they said worked perfectly had an Intel Graphics chipset. </div><div><br></div><div>Given the amount of discussion relating to problems with the nVidia drivers in Karmic, could this be a factor in this review.? </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Shentino wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Indeed this list lately has been buzzing somewhat with grumpy messages regarding Karmic's bellyflop.<br><br>I must admit that some of mine could have been a bit less condescending than they were.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Patrick Goetz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgoetz@mail.utexas.edu">pgoetz@mail.utexas.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><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<br>
has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a<br>
<a href="http://TomsHardware.com">TomsHardware.com</a> review:<br>
<br>
<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><br>
<br>
Some of these issues (system freezes when copying large files on ext4)<br>
I've never heard of before.<br>
<br>
My personal gripes with karmic were finding out that fakeraid now<br>
doesn't work at all, a regression caused by grub2<br>
(<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/392136" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/392136</a>)<br>
and that the network applet, nm-applet still doesn't work in a<br>
multi-user context:<br>
<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><br>
<br>
<br>
Either of these is a deal killer for some significant fraction of users<br>
(e.g. dual booters or household shared PC users, respectively).<br>
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