Some more disquieting news about karmic koala from another soslug member derek (SoSLUG)
Stephen Pointer wrote: > Dunno about everybody else but I was extreamly disappointed with Karmic > Koala: > > 1) compiz fuzion screwing up my keyboard mapping > > 2) the GDM login theme is fugly (IMHO) > > 3) false alerts that my disk has bad sectors when a S.M.A.R.T scan > showed none > > 4) what is that closed source cloud storage signup (Ubuntu One) doing on > the desktop edition and the closed source remote manager software > (Landscape) on the server edition (I though this was open source) > > 5) a local deny of service vulnerability (avoidable) which I have > previous been through the bugfix process with their kernel team is back > again. Grrrrr! > > I uninstalled after that and changed distro, that erlease is not ready > for prime time, should be called Ubuntu Vista > > Steve > > delboy wrote: >> Received this message from chaz smart today regarding openshot software >> for Karmic Koala please review and investigate before installing this >> software and be aware they may be problems with it. Chaz message follows >> below. >> >> derek(SoSLUG) >> >> Chaz Smart wrote: >>> Hi Derek Please warn anyone using karmic to stay well away from a >>> video editing software called "openshot" . >>> The problem as far as i can tell is that they have just given it a >>> major revamp and upon install it changes amongst other things the >>> karmic version of ffmpeg (others as well but i dont have the list). >>> This will leave most your multimedia playback dead in the water >>> especially VLC and totem player and once installed is a pig of a job >>> to put right.( i had to re install Ubuntu). >>> Can you warn all soslug members so they dont get caught by this. >>> >>> Thanx Chaz. >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
