[ubuntu-uk] Karmic upgrade this morning

[Tony Arnold]

Rob,

Rob Beard wrote:

> I'm running Karmic on my notebook and this morning it had a whole load 
> of packages (about 600MB worth) to upgrade.  After upgrading I noticed 
> that it has the new flashy Splash screen which although not as seemless 
> as what I've seen, it looks nice.  I also noticed that the theme has 
> changed (for the better I'd say).
> 
> I just wondered if this upgrade is the Beta version of Karmic which is 
> due any time now?

A beta CD is due to be released tomorrow[1], so I guess all the updates
today would bring you roughly in line with that.

I like the new theme too. Last I saw, the GDM theme was still a bit
unpolished, IMHO. Maybe today's updates have fixed that.

Regards,
Tony.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule
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