Monthly Archives: October 2009

Ubuntu Karmic Koala officially released!

Just to let everyone know: Karmic is out of beta and released officially! Get out your party hats and get installing! Ok, maybe you won’t be able to install so quickly because a lot of mirrors are completely swamped. My tip is to use torrents instead, the more people use them the faster it gets, [...]

Howto: Net-install Ubuntu Karmic from Usb Stick

Just something I discovered by accident I really screwed up yesterday and managed to delete my whole /etc dir, thus I had to reinstall because things were “slightly” messed up with the system after that! I downloaded a daily alternative installation of Karmic because I didn’t want to install from the official beta release iso [...]

Karmic Koala Desktop Beta Review

Being my first review here I would like everyone to keep this in mind, it might not be up to the quality you are used to from other sites Installation Since there are so many sites posting screenshots of the whole installation process I will not go into so much detail. I will stick to [...]

Reminder To Self: Grub2 Karmic Harddrive Fix When Using PATA & SATA

Just a quick reminder for myself, this happened to me in other distro’s & releases as well but I seem to forget about it.. The problem is my home server has both PATA and SATA and I have installed Ubuntu Karmic on the PATA drive (secondary PATA master) and somehow GRUB and GRUB2 have problems [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) beta just released!

It seems the development of Karmic is coming along quite well, all of a sudden it has been taken out of Alpha status and been released as Beta! I’m guessing we’ll see at least 4-5 beta’s before the release clients (RC) appear. It’s all going a lot faster than I expected though, this means I’ll [...]