http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/ This is the blog of Jean-Baptiste Kempf. I will share some info about my life, my works and my VideoLAN work en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:51:00 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/10/05/Ubuntu-Karmic-tryouts urn:md5:80c6804e414eaf1fd71de008529c2602 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:04:00 +0200 JBK Geek & Computer geekinstallkarmicOpenSourceUbuntu <h2>Ubuntu update required</h2> <p>My girlfriend had a very weird bug on her openoffice and on many gtk apps, where hovering the buttons or going one page down or up wouldn&#8217;t refresh the display correctly. I have tried many things, but nothing worked correctly. She had also weird bugs while using WPA2 WiFi network.</p> <p>So, instead of doing an update, as usual, I took the beta of the Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 and reinstalled the laptop.<br /> I usually have /home on separate partitions, and that proved once again to be a good idea.</p> <h3>Installations</h3> <p>The installation went without many issues, once I fixed the Dell MediaDirect mess that screwed up the partition table. The installation was quite fast too. The new look seems quite ok, but nothing &quot;woauw&quot;.</p> <p>Then, I reinstalled it on 3 other machines.</p> <h2>Good</h2> <ul> <li>Great installation, wifi and most devices worked, without issues,</li> <li>Many applications correctly installed,</li> <li>Great new look for the windows and overall look,</li> <li>Ubuntu Software Center seems quite a nice step forward,</li> <li>vlc has moved from multiverse to universe and is up-to-date,</li> </ul> <h2>Bad</h2> <ul> <li>nVidia drivers install is still counter-logical,</li> <li>Humanity icons suck. Orange ones are too much of the same, and the grey ones (WiFi and so on) are impossible to read,</li> <li>F-Spot and Tomboy&#8230; .Net crap and slow&#8230; Seriously I don&#8217;t get it.</li> </ul> <h2>Meeting Mark and Ubunteros</h2> <p>For some reasons, I met Mark at a conference and said &quot;Hi!&quot;. Nothing important, but still cool.</p> <p>He made a cool talk about Cadence, Quality and Design.</p> <p>Then, I met a few cool Ubuntu developers (and former DD) and it was nice, except that we had a big discussion about vlc not being in main.</p> <p>Here are some of the reasons and some &#8216;bad faith&#8217; comments from me:</p> <ul> <li>VLC is too big for core install (haha, Mono!)</li> <li>there is already one multimedia stack, GStreamer (then WTF does xine hang there?)</li> </ul> <p>Anyway, it was quite cool, and this Ubuntu release seems very promising.</p> http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/10/05/Ubuntu-Karmic-tryouts#comment-form http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/10/05/Ubuntu-Karmic-tryouts#comment-form http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/feed/atom/comments/198