Congratulations [LWN.net]

Congratulations

Posted Oct 30, 2008 16:34 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373)
Parent article: Ubuntu 8.10 has been released

Not a totally exciting release .. but upgrading was smooth (for my computers) and it seems very solid.

Thanks everyone!

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I agree

Posted Oct 30, 2008 17:04 UTC (Thu) by leomilano (guest, #32220) [Link]

I second this, thank you everyone, including the larger Debian community and the FS community in general.

I think the Kubuntu release is exciting (there is the switch to KDE4), though I'll have to hold on because of the NVIDIA binary drivers issue ... doesn anyone know if a new binary driver for the latest xorg is in the works? Thanks!

Kubuntu's missing features

Posted Oct 30, 2008 21:29 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

nVidia drivers work fine for me, but the lack of Bluetooth is really a shame.

Kubuntu's missing features

Posted Oct 30, 2008 21:38 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

I'm sorry what? What did they do to make bluetooth go away? It has worked for me since I started using Kubuntu.

Kubuntu's missing features

Posted Oct 31, 2008 7:22 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Apparently KDE does not yet support the newer Bluez 4.x stack required by the new kernel.

Kubuntu's missing features

Posted Oct 30, 2008 23:09 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

bluetooth is fine here...

Recommended NVidia blob version

Posted Oct 31, 2008 11:57 UTC (Fri) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]

If you're running version 177.80 of the nvidia binary driver, you should be OK. That version of the driver fixes most of the latency / drawing problems by accelerating certain Xrender operation that are extensively used by Qt and Cairo.