Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala: Photo gallery

Summary: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala will be the distribution's eleventh release, and highlights include the addition of a new boot screen, an updated default theme, and the addition of the Ubuntu One service.

By Chris Duckett | October 27, 2009 -- 01:21 GMT (18:21 PDT)

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Boot logo
Rather than show the dmesg information during boot-up, Ubuntu 9.10 shows this minimal boot screen based on the Ubuntu logo. The same logo is used during installation and later on when booting into Ubuntu 9.10 from the hard drive

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3G USB Support

Unfortunately I had to fall back from Karmic Beta to Jaunty because of a bug that fixed access to the mass storage device in USB 3G dongles but dropped access to the serial device (modem). Hope they get it fixed in time for release

anonymous

27 October, 2009 01:26

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Swap space at end of disk?

If installing to SSDs, swap space location is immaterial.

However, on a HDD, the further the swap space is from the apps, the more time penalty it imposes, considering that when it is used, it imposes delays anyway.

If a whole large partition is being used, it would be better to have swap near the start. If two, in the middle.

anonymous

1 November, 2009 17:12

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