Due to hardware issues on my netbook I ended up using my old machine and I installed Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala. My old machine is a Lenovo C3000 N100 so as you can see, it’s beginning to age. But no Karmic Koala didn’t give me headaches the way I had other issues in the past.
What’s the initial impression that I got from using Karmic Koala?

It’s shiny! Seriously. I found the new GNOME quite shiny. It’s a whole lot more polished compared to the older GNOME releases. It really looks clean and whoever passed …read more

It’s too late when I realized that I didn’t have my netbook’s charger and so I can’t really upgrade my netbook this weekend. It’s not good. Argh. And just when I had plenty of time to upgrade and fix something if ever something gets broken.
So yeah, everybody seems to have Ubuntu 9.10 or Karmic Koala already. Well, except for me. Tsk. Next time I will check my things before leaving a building, just to be sure this doesn’t happen again.
Back to business.
And everyone but me has Karmic Koala. By this time it’s more …read more

Ubuntu Karmic Koala’s about to be released and I was wondering if I should upgrade or stick with Jaunty Jackalope. Phoronix released an article about Ubuntu 9.10 performance on netbooks. It looks like that there is a perceived improvement with the disk-intensive tasks because of the switch to the EXT4 filesystem. Those who are using SSDs on their netbooks might especially want to take advantage of that. For the upcoming release I am actually waiting for the Ubuntu 9.10 Moblin Remix. I am using the Ubuntu UMPC one right now but the Moblin user interface …read more