What's the word on Ubuntu 9.10?

[Brother-brian]

anyone have any probs with the new Ubuntu 9.10, just released 10-29-09? I burned it to disk for a clean install on a desktop for a friend, but im wary about upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04, then up to 9.10. I mean, I have regnum running, wine, e-sword, mumble, amarok, and compiz, i even got my soundblaster worked out. I am hesitant to upgrade. Any tips? And how bad will upgrading screw up my current settings?

[Ertial]

I haven't had any problems at all with Karmic so far, and I've been using it since June. Well, two or three during the (early) alphas, but nothing unrecoverable.

Sound problems have diminished a lot since 8.10 and I think you shouldn't have much problems with your system. If you do have troubles you could always install the package 'linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic', which contains a snapshot of the latest Alsa drivers, which often includes a lot of bugfixes and support for new devices/chipsets.

Managing a Wine installation should be even easier now there are two packages for wine: wine, providing the stable 1.0.x releases and wine1.2, providing the less stable, but often better 1.1.x releases, which in time should become a stable 1.2 series.

Both the versions of Compiz and Mumble provided for Karmic should be newer than in 8.10 and Amarok received an overhaul as well.

You could always search http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ for common problems with Karmic or with your system if you're still in doubt.

Two things also worth mentioning: upgrading your filesystem to ext4 is really something I'd recommend as it should be much faster than ext3, which was the default filesystem in 8.10.
Karmic also includes a new version of Grub, moving away from grub-legacy it provides Grub2. However, this version is not installed when you upgrade your system from previous releases. If you do want to new Grub, which provides a nicer boot experience and is said to be a tad bit faster than grub-legacy, you have to install 'grub-pc' and afterwards run the command 'sudo upgrade-from-grub-legacy'.

[Orimae]

My hubby upgraded to 9.10..and um.nothing but RO worked..surprisingly...

He had no minimise or close buttons on browsers..so back to 9.04 lol

[Anpu]

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 yesterday and had some problems like:
-not seeing desktop
-starting IRC, FF etc leads to OS login screen
-couple of programs reported crash
-on loading screen, 3 of 5 icons appeared

I managed to stabilize OS a little by removing .kde folder, but I am going to clean reinstall of OS. According to IRC channels #kubuntu and #kubuntu-devel, who helped in stabilizing OS after upgrade, upgrade is not always good choice since it has high chance to fail somewhere. Recommendation is fresh installing, and one tip for others is have /home on separate partition.

[Myxir]

I did a fresh install of my system when the RC was released.
I don't have problems at all (at the moment).

[Anpu]

Fresh install of 9.10 =)

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5877/screenshot2009103118121.jpg

[Myxir]

Nice FPS Anpu :metal:

[DkySven]

I made a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.10 at my laptop, whichw as slow and my sound was messed up. Now I have Arch Linux with KDE and things work nice.

[Ertial]

Karmic really was a weird release. During the Alphas and Betas no one had problems and it was one of the most stable development versions ever. Now, though, every person upgrading to Karmic has problems. I've got no idea what's going on, but I do encourage everyone here to report bugs if they find bugs.

[Anpu]

Btw I installed today 5 fresh installs of 9.10 and experience was terrible on my machine (for RO I wont even mention, you saw one screenshot, but now RO slows whole OS when entering on server). I m back to 9.04, all is fine. So i dont reccomend 9.10 for "older" machines.