hi, am using pidgin on my machine since last month with audio video support. i am running mint linux which is a UI enhanced version of Ubuntu 9.04. In case any of you want to try mint wait for 15 20 days for them to come out with new release based on 9.10 regards Lokesh <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Abhinav Modi <<a href="mailto:abhinavmodi@gmail.com">abhinavmodi@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ramnarayan.K <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi am keen to know what user feedback there if for Karmic Koala , from users on the list who may have upgraded / reinstalled. </blockquote></div><div> Have been using it since one of the beta versions. TBH, I do not see much of an external difference. The upgrade process was smooth. The startup time seems to have decreased, which is good. The boot splash does not show any info, which is good for some users - personally, I would like some text to keep appearing on what is happening. Maybe there is a tweak for that. Things to try: * UEC (The cloud computing thing) - Looks promising. * Install on ext4 might show greater performance increase * I use pidgin, as I haven't gotten hang of the empathy client yet. Pidgin does support voice/video with google. Tried setting it up. The Video is fine, but the audio is not coming out properly. Maybe if someone upgrades from 9.04 directly (instead of continuous incremental upgrades via alpha/beta), they will see a more discernible difference :) Would of course recommend upgrading from 9.04 HTH Abhinav <a href="http://indimark.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://indimark.blogspot.com</a> <a href="http://www.employees.org/%7Eabhinav/blog" target="_blank">http://www.employees.org/~abhinav/blog</a> </div></div> -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div> -- $ emerge -uD life (Upgrade life with dependencies)