Hi there fellow Ubuntu users. I have not posted about Ubuntu for awhile, but I continue to use it as my daily OS, and it works well.
Not long after 9.10 (Karmic Koala) became available, I went ahead and installed it. The install was painless, and since I did it a few weeks ago, I really can not remember any detail worth mentioning. It was a non-event for me. Also worth noting is that there were no features in 9.10 that have jumped out at me. But, hey, I am current.
At some point also a few weeks ago, I found out about "lsb_release -a" which is a really handy way to tell exactly which release of Linux you are running. The one weird thing is that it includes a message stating "No LSB modules are available" - spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what the heck this means, but can not tell. Anyway, the command - as well as just looking at the /etc/lsb-release file is handy.
I spent some time looking at installing KDE in side-by-side mode with GNOME,but the more I looked at that, the more it looked like trouble. Back in about 2000, I did run a version of RH with GNOME and KDE both available, and it worked OK, but it just looks like trouble with the current builds to try and get that to work, so to heck with it.
On the other hand, I have spent a little time looking at virtualization for a desktop, and I am fairly sure that VirtualBox is the best solution for desktop virtualization. My objective is to run Vista in a VM, so I can access the few Windows applications which do not work well under Linux.
Stay tuned.
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