I recently downloaded the latest version of Kubuntu 9.10 after its recent release. I’ve been quite impressed with it other than a few nagging bugs. If any of you like the Chicken Little Remix of Ubuntu and don’t mind the KDE Desktop you’ll feel at home – no mono included (no KDE apps depend on C#, and none of the official ones will, QT/KDE > mono/gtk#).
The release doesn’t include Firefox as a default web browser. They did include an installer for it if you do use it. After installing Firefox, you can go to Youtube and everything works 100%…. Unless you want Gnash. Kubuntu installs Adobe Flash without even informing me it had done so. I think this was done when it was installing Firefox but I could be wrong – it never told me. On a positive note Firefox has been given Qt/KDE touch ups in regards to some of its menus. The save dialog fits properly now.
The interface was very clean and crud free. They seemed to have stuck with KDE’s default appearance. KDE’s network manager has improved significantly. It’s quite usable now and perhaps Fedora will start using it themselves (It’s in the repo, try it out and file bug reports if needed). I’m also glad that Kubuntu/Ubuntu package the latest Aurora browser. I’ve been keeping up to date since version 0.8 and it’s shaping up quite nicely. It reminds me of Pheonix 0.9 (the old name of firefox).
I would recommend this distribution if it weren’t so insistent on including and recommending proprietary software.
Version-o-meter of relevance:
Kernel: 2.6.31
KDE: 4.3.2
Xorg: 1.6.4
QT: 4.5.3
Firefox: 3.5.5
Screenshots will arrive as soon as I upload them.
Gnash has never once functioned for me at all…
File any bug reports?
hard to quantify “does not do anything at all, ever.”