Karmic Alpha 6/Beta

[David Fox]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Anyone know if Beta is simply an fully updated Alpa 6?

Not exactly, it's whatever got updated between the two releases. You
could try the beta ISO but I think it would be better to just update
whatever you already have if you've installed a previous revision of
Karmic. The changes that have taken place are extremely numerous and
new packages come out all the time (e.g.,karmic-changes mailing list
is very busy at times -- it has dumped a whole lot into my inbox in
the last few days, and it's taking time for me to review things) and
the updates themselves are usually lengthy. For instance, I last did
an aptitude update / aptitude upgrade cycle on the Karmic on my laptop
which doesn't have nearly all the packages I have installed on my
desktop, and there was 287 megs of updates between 9/28 and today.
Much of course was the beta release, I'm sure. But put that in
perspective - that's almost haft of what's on the Ubuntu distro CD. Of
course, I've added some more packages since I installed (originally
Intrepid) on the laptop, so there's of course more than just what
comes on the CD, but you get the idea.

The 2 biggest symptoms I have now are an unclean shutdown (sporadic
loop errors only on shutdown, despite being able to read and copy the
entire image without seeing any access errors) and wireless issues,
and I'm still trying to diagnose those. KDE's wireless manager at
present doesn't even see the available wireless access points; Gnome
does, but has issues even connecting to one saying that there is no
signal strength. So, I ended up doing the big upgrade on the laptop
borrowing the desktop internet cable, which is too short to be of much
use :).

I've seen this happen before though. Usually if KDE's having trouble
seeing the wireless I can switch into Gnome and get a wireless
connection that way - at least it's the easiest way for me to do it
now without doing a manual configuration :).

It's only recently (within the last week) that I've noticed this
problem, and I will investigate further. (Might as well try the same
wireless connection in Vista... :( )



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