First Look at Kubuntu 9.10, “Karmic Koala”
Posted by Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead on Oct 9, 2009
I just installed a copy of the titular distro last night and have been playing with it a bit. So far it’s been less trouble than I would have expected from a first beta, and runs well. Get Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta 1 here. A word to the wise, this is beta software and not yet ready for prime time.
I installed it on my laptop, I use it for a lot of things but the data is always expendable. I had installed it in a VM a few days previously but that was not as satisfying as trying it in the real world as opposed to the idealized world of the VM.
Test Specs
- Compaq EVO n610c
- Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 – M CPU 2.40GHz
- TEAC DW-224E-A 24x/24x writer cd/rw
- Fujitsu MHT2040A 5400RPM drive
- 512MB DDR
- D-Link DWL-G630 802.11g Atheros AR2413
- ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
The Install
From the get-go there was trouble. Read the rest of this entry . . .
