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Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois
Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois
Dear, oh dear. Nothing quite as bitter as a Linux fanboy scorned, is there?
Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
ubuntu.com — Email and chat Chat with friends and colleagues through Empathy which integrates: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL,... QQ and many more. Evolution gives you email, an address book and a calendar and works well with colleagues and friends using MS ... (more) Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
Ubuntu 9.10 Technical Overview
ubuntu.com — Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default instant messaging client, introducing the Telepathy framework . The gdm... 2.28 login manager by William Jon McCann is a complete rewrite compared to the version in earlier Ubuntu releases, permitting a more ... (more) Ubuntu 9.10 Technical Overview
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala • The Register
theregister.co.uk — Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of... the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure ... (more) Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala • The ...
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Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches to mixed reviews
Open Source — ... Reviews on the desktop version are negative, due to the fact you can’t run multiple drives with the current code base. This means a netbook user may be happy but a desktop user (my desktop has three hard drives) will not be satisfied at all. ...

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