I am using Ubuntu for almost a year now. I was using Ubuntu from 8.04 Hardy Heron and then upgraded to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and both versions were good and I had a happy time using them. Firefox browser ran smoothly as well as compiz. I am not a Linux expert, I am just a Linux fan, especially Ubuntu. I tried CentOS 5 and Fedora before, and I think they are good and stable, but you need to take some time to tweak and configure to become a perfect desktop.
But later after I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, I had a very disappointing time. As you can read it on my other post here. Boot time took longer than before, compiz was not working properly so I had to disable some features, Firefox was very slow, I cannot watch YouTube on full screen anymore, and I needed tweaking with my Xorg.conf. It was a very disappointing time. But after doing some research and updates, slowly and slowly it got better and I could do work on this Jaunty. But still I’m not really satisfied with the performance.
Now, since this article was released, it is 6 days to go for the new Ubuntu release, you can see the release schedule here. Code name is Karmic Koala. This Ubuntu version is 9.10. There are some fixes and new features on this new release:
- Use GNOME 2.28, for Kubuntu using KDE 4.3.1
- Use kernel 2.6.31
- New Intel video driver architecture (I cannot wait to see this improvement)
- Use ext4 filesystem as default
- Use GRUB2 by default
And there are more improvements, you can read it here for Ubuntu, and here for Kubuntu.
So will Karmic Koala be better than Jaunty? Let’s see together in 7 days from now. I will report it based on my experience. So stay tuned on my blog and thanks for reading this article.