techradar.com — Due October, Karmic Koala is taking cloud computing seriously. You can generally get an inclination of what Ubuntu is going to feel like from the name, and we think the Karmic Koala is going to be more of an interim release than a major overhaul.
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the8thbitJul 10, 2009
it's the x.org window system. X11 has issues with Intel graphics cards. I wish Canotical would have used the stable version of X.org rather than the newest. If they used the old one card performance would be identical as in 8.10.
pokobuntJul 10, 2009
For the 10.04 release, it should be, "Epileptic Elephant".
foltaggioJul 10, 2009
has to be L
Closed AccountJul 10, 2009
i would be glad only if they could work out the acpi problems regarding the sleep and hibernate funtions on several notebooks.other then that, ubuntu already looks and feels amazing as it is
rrreditJul 11, 2009
You can have your OWN cloud. And then connect all your netbooks, desktops, notebooks to it in order to store/retrieve your docs. The same for a company: have its own cloud to which the employees connect. It doesn't have to be stored on Google or Canonical or Amazon's servers.
Closed AccountJul 12, 2009
1. GPM is for the mouse. How do you expect the clipboard to be fixed if we're doing something to the way the mouse works?2. What's wrong with having just one? If I want to say use jack, then my application doesn't work with distro's who use alsa or pulse. If I use pulse or alsa, then it won't work with distro's who use jack. Developers when it comes to api's don't like having to choose. They want one choice. I don't get why this is so hard to get across. And phonon is limited to kde. The sound api layer should be below kde and gnome.3. I already said that ati had released the specs for the drivers and the proprietary drivers are still better. See this post here <a class="user" href="http://antitux.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-grafix.html.">http://antitux.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-grafix.ht ...</a>4 and 5. Actually windows and os x include standard libraries. And unless linux distro's agree on a set of standard libraries and their versions to be used. No special patching should be required because otherwise you have the current situation where distro a has version 1.0 and distro b has version 1.0-1.6. This excuse has been used over and over and I don't buy it. But your ending for it shows the real motive behind not having a stable abi, so that it forces companies to open source their drivers. That's not exactly happening. For example, NVidia here built their own stable abi as a module for the kernel for their proprietary drivers. It can be done, politics in open source is the only thing holding it back. The advantage being that companies can release drivers after a distro has been released and be able to compile them once as well.7. I think you misunderstood my point. If OSS software developers concentrated on believing that they need to make it good enough to sell, even if they're just giving it away for free, it'll cause them to take care of the features that normally they would consider are good enough to not be good enough and to make it easier to use instead. An example is using any of the audio manipulation tools in audacity when you haven't selected any portion of the audio file yet, it does nothing then. In adobe audition, if you do the same thing, it will assume you meant the whole file and so selects it all for you and then proceeds doing what you wanted to do.As for selling software for linux, I meant a distribution neutral packaging format similar to msi on windows. But this relies on distro's committing to a standard set of libraries and not changing the code in them. Creating a package for the major distro's is not the answer and wastes the developer's time. It's all about making it easier on the developer.
marx2kJul 15, 2009
Dig for dugged.
kstith5Jul 21, 2009
great.use of ubuntu we can work in easy way it is depending on user.If it will be understandable than good other wise it can creat a problem.
yaroman22Jul 23, 2009
Actually, that exactly what it is. Hell, most the "innovative" features of the Cloud can be traced all the way back to the bad old days of mainframe timeshares.Like Microkernels in the early 90's, Cloud Computing is hype du jour.
yaroman22Jul 23, 2009
You know... sound was never a problem in Linux since 2001 when ALSA came along.Then PULSE AUDIO came along and f**ked it up again.