Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

The entire article mentions only one bug, which is caused by proprietary drivers. Seems more like FUD to me. And yes I had a smooth upgrade to Karmic-amd64 with proprietary ATI drivers.

I've never seen the register being positive about anything new.

It's stuff like this which makes me think that the release cycle for Ubuntu is just too brisk. I've just recently managed to get two 8.10 installs to the point where they're comfortably configured and stable. I'm still working out a few issues with Jaunty on a netbook. There's no way I'm going to upgrade that thing to Karmic for maybe six months or so. Granted, this makes me an LTS guy and not an early adopter, but I don't think my situation is unique.

I wonder if this is truly a widespread issue. I've been using Karmic daily since the beta was released a few weeks ago, upgrading its packages to the official release, and I haven't encountered any issues yet. Has anyone here had any of the problems described in the article?

I had two issues, one during the upgrade process, the second with proprietary wireless network drivers. I upgraded a 3-years old HP laptop from Windows XP. My initial plan was to make it boot both systems, but the install hang up during repartition, destroying Windows. Oh, well, isn't that what Linux is for, to destroy Windows? The second problem was just an annoying non-issue, solved by finding the right aptitude incantations.<p>Apart from that, Karmic has been a cute little boy all along.

Never upgrade Ubuntu. Just reinstall. It's not that user-friendly.

"fifth of people upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 have reported issues they can't fix, according to an Ubuntuforums.org poll here"<p>wow, statistics in action<p>I have an issue with fan control with my upgrade, apart from that it went well, so a little worse than jaunty, but still easier than osx and windows.

I've been told to wait with the Snow Leopard update, too. Update of Ubuntu on my second notebook really produced some errors, but after a clean install (often a good idea anyway), it looks great. For the first time I did not immediately switch off the desktop effects.

Updated my Advent laptop from Jaunty a week ago, no significant issues. Can't say it's massively better than Jaunty in terms of features or performance though.

Just checked my Karmic Koala server. It does have Linux 2.6.31, but maybe that's because I've been aggressive about updating it.

Lots of issues for myself and friends too. Shouldn't have updated so soon, but 8.10 - 9.04 didn't feel this problematic.

Google appengine does not work with 9.10, I have seen it yesterday. There is a bug as well in appengine buglist

First Linux version where everything worked perfectly OOB for me. No complaints here.

I've had, and continue to have, sound issues.