You might have read my earlier post about Ubuntu 9.04 boot issue. I used the older kernel, booted into the system, disabled the Bluetooth service from the startup. Again, the boot process was painfully slow when it comes to checking for hardware, but the system booted fine without any error. Everything else worked fine, but when it came to shutting down, it started erroring out when it was trying to shutdown the Bluetooth service. I’m not sure why it was trying to shutdown the Bluetooth service when it was not started at all. I had to reset and do a cold shutdown each time. I hope this problem gets fixed soon.
I upgraded my laptop last week to Kubuntu 9.04 from Kubuntu 8.10. When I started the upgrade process, I got a warning that my ATI video card was not compatible with the latest Xorg. I selected the cotinue button. After the upgrade process was completed, I restarted the system. When I restarted, the grub showed only the old Kubuntu 8.10 kernels. It didn’t show the new Kubuntu 9.04 kernels. I booted through the Kubuntu 8.10 kernel. I then updated the grub using update-grub command. The update process listed the new Kubuntu 9.04 kernel and said it updated the grub.I rebooted the system and again got the same old kernels. I tried couple of time updating the grub and each time the update process said it updated, but it never got updated. I finally uninstalled the old kernels through adept, updated the grub again and rebooted the system. This time the grub showed the right kernels. Unlike my Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade, my Kubuntu 9.04 booted pretty fast and even the shutdown was pretty fast. I have been using it for the last one week and it’s pretty stable.
The other issue I found with Kubuntu 9.04 was the Wifi manager. Kubuntu 9.04 now supports the plasma-widget-network-manager, so it didn’t install knetwork manager. That’s fine, but the problem is, it doesn’t start the plasma widget automatically. For an end user, it would be a pain to understand and add it. I added the plasma widget network manager to the taskbar by right clicking the taskbar, unlocked the widget, clicked on the add widget and added that widget. It detected my wifi fine and after I entered the information, I was asked to save the information using the KDE Wallet. I said yes. The problem now is, each time I boot the system, KDE wallet will wait for my authorization before it starts the wifi manager. If I’m not around my desk, it would sit without connecting to my wifi until I come back and authorize. I don’t have any complaints otherswise. I have found out that both Ubuntu 9.04 and Kubuntu 9.04’s wifi network connect and work pretty faster than Vista.
ps: This is nothing compared to the pain of upgrading XP to Vista.
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I don’t remember it now (stopped using KDE due to lack of some features I wanted). I installed the theme through theme installing option in KDE. I’m not sure how I navigated to the option since I don’t have KDE now, but through system settings or appearance settings, KDE will give you a list of KDE 4 compatible themes.
What theme is that I have been trying to find a theme while I wait to install after i get my new hard drive.
Sorry for the anti-spam issue. I’m getting lots of spam in the last few days, so I’m trying to fix that.
I agree with your points. I’m not sure how they released the final version without making things more user friendly (especially network manager plasmoid).
Hey, your anti-spam is too hard, and it didn’t keep my comment when I got it wrong. How annoying is that?
It’s an even worse user interface than the network manager — what kind of a network manager doesn’t actually tell you _which network_ you’re connected. It’s nice to know that I am connected and a list of the networks in range but I would like to see which network I’m connected to. This really is a simple and necessary UI element, someone really dropped the ball there.
I would also like to add my +1 for the ‘how do I connect?’ conundrum you mentioned. Having to add a plasmoid in order to connect to a network is not at all intuitive and should be done automagically.
It is worth. The pain of upgrading Ubuntu is much smaller than Windows.
But it is worth the pain isnt it ?
I am saying bye to windows with the release of 9.04 edition
Ubuntu rocks !!