hi guys,

is anyone arnd here been using Ubuntu 5.10..
I am downloading it so that i can replace my 5.04...

Is the version as good as 5.04....
Need true comments & suggestions...

After testing for three days Ub. 5.10 I found some annoyances with multilanguage support.
Right to left languages supported only for web. OpenOffice fails to cooperate with system fonts

did u find any problems with sound card detection or something like that??
and loading extra repositories....

Don't use Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 amd64. It is way too buggy and unstable to use right now. They have a critical [in my opinion] bug that prevents it from booting. It suffers from boot failure-grub can only start to boot the kernel 12.6.12-9 amd64 generic and then it stops and says the hard drive doesn't exist. Can't find the hard drive? Oh come on!!! This has been reported as bug #: 16724. They are currently working on it and when it gets fixed and Breezy is bootable, then I will revise my distro rating from a 1 [preferrably a zero, but they did not have zero in the ratings list] to a 10. It is a potentially good distro-the best-but only and ONLY IF they fix this bug. Use Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 amd64 as it works fine. Just not Breezy as it is currently absolutely no good as it won't boot and there is at least one other person who has almost the same hardware and almost the same problem. This is my recommendation. The bug is currently being worked on. Let's hope they fix it real soon. I feel they should not have released Breezy with them knowing that it is so buggy. Great distro otherwise. Hope this helps someone.

Sincerely,

Jean Brown Harrell

No problems with sound. I updated alsa packages from Debian-etch repositories straight away though

Even though 5.10 has been officially released, it's still quite buggy (both Kubuntu and Ubuntu). I'd stick with 5.04 for another month or so.

I tried Kubuntu as well. Disaster altogether!

Finally managed to convince it to install - still get a box-full of errors from Synaptic. Only have it as a "comparison" system - torrent works, still burns iso's o.k, can surf the web.
What else could you want ????...

On my first clean install of 5.10 it was a disaster as apt couldn't connect to the network and Synaptic got messed up ( I shouldn't have tried to install on Thursday, the servers were hammered badly). But, after that the installs went fine. I've got my two new Ubuntu 5.10 boxes running, no issues that I've noticed yet. Sound was fine.

5.10 not upto the mark ! have probs with cd/dvd writing

updated from 5.04, not a single problem.

Probably... but only if you don't use multilanguage. Right to left languages supported only for web. OpenOffice fails to cooperate with system fonts. And if Ubuntu is not universal then it must be pointed to users before actual install

upgraded from hoary to breezy using an iso cd via synaptic
have done this on all 3 systems on my home network

no problems thus far all running well ...

looking at most of the posts, we can say that Breezy also requires some tweaks like Hoary.
....
Still, what i like most about Ubuntu is the 1 CD concept, its really light......!

I installed Breezy last night from ISO and it went pretty much flawlessly. And runs like a top too. The only weird thing I noticed is that it didn't set up GRUB to include Slackware or Zenwalk which are on other partitions. I dunno if its something I overlooked during setup or what, just thought it was strange. And the new Gnome is pretty nice too!