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Kubuntu Karmic installation

07-Nov-09
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I upgraded my desktop box from Ubuntu Jaunty to Kubuntu Karmic today as well, since I find the latter’s advantages over the former outweighing its disadvantages. Among the advantages are the standard availability of Firefox 3.5, the out of the box working of sound (no hassle with sound systems this time), and faster booting up. [...]

Karmic Koala: not impressed

02-Nov-09
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This weekend Canonical released their new OS, Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”, and I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop. So far, I’m sorry to say, I’m not impressed. The first thing I noticed was lots of screen artefacts. The login screen as well as the desktop had lots of green and red pixels all over them. [...]