Thanks to Luke and Gerhard for verifying that OO will work fine on Karmic US. I've got another terrible problem, though, and that's with the install routine - it doesn't get far so nothing bad happened to my system, but the problem is that it returns an error rather quickly that says it can't mount the CD-ROM. This may be a general problem with Ubuntu though as I tried the ordinary Karmic ISO too, and it freezes and the screen goes black while the little grey Ubuntu symbol is pulsing. Details are here <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305767">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305767</a>In the past, I've run successful installs of UbuntuStudio (9.04) and a couple of versions of UltimateUbuntu as well. So it's not my hardware.Can anyone help? Thanks.Todd> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:03 +1100 > From: Luke Yelavich <<a href="mailto:themuso@ubuntu.com">themuso@ubuntu.com</a>> > Subject: Re: Karmic, Kernel, and OpenOffice > To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20091029233403.GA3644@strigy.yelavich.home">20091029233403.GA3644@strigy.yelavich.home</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:28:06AM EST, Todd Howe wrote: > > Any word on whether the RT kernel problem that was causing OpenOffice > > installs to trash Synaptic has been resolved with the new Karmic release? > > I've wiped my HD a couple of times as a consequence of 9.04 UbuntuStudio, > > and I am afeared.> Yes, things should work fine, since this RT patchset we are using is from upstrea > proper, and not an attempt at a patchset, as was used with 2.6.28, since there were > no official rt patches for 2.6.28.> Luke