9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net> wrote:

> From: Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net>
> Subject: Re: 9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:00 AM
> 
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 11:50:47 Clint Tinsley wrote:
> > It appears that Karmic Koala was rushed out the door
> and is really giving
> >  Ubuntu and Linux a black eye as a very flawed,
> buggey release.  There have
> >  been two derogative reviews with the second one
> today on Linux Magazine
> >  Daily titled "Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look
> Bad" and it sad to
> >  acknowledge that they are right.  The
> article reports that maybe 10% of
> >  the user population is getting a "succesful"
> working installlation and
> >  after my experience this morning, I wonder for
> how longed.  I did an
> >  inplace upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, things were
> seriously broken.  I did a
> >  clean install, had a few challenges, not a
> perfect install. Then this
> >  morning, I found that my Wine menu was "reset"
> and one of my application
> >  folders was missing off the hard drive, this
> after a update that sort of
> >  worked, I think.  And like many have
> experienced, 9.10 is very slow to
> >  boot.  Waiting for the real release of
> 9.10... or atleast a remix.  I
> >  cannot recommend 9.10 to my user
> community.  9.04 was great, it worked,
> >  Gloria Mint 7 put on the polish.
> > 
> > Sorry, please no flames.
> > 
> > Clint
> > 
> Totally opposite of my experience. I upgraded to the 9.10
> beta a few weeks ago 
> from 9.04 and have had no problems with it.
> 
I too have had less issues with karmic beta than many other earlier releases.  My .02.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net