Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread Phil in the scrub
Snip It has its good points and its bad points But becaus eof very real annoyances with sound and wireless and a few other niggles ditched it and went back to Jaunty which is fine . I actualy found the Koala although improve performance and speed somewhat to be a bunch of crap for my needs

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread Norm
You know, This may sound a little like heresy, but is a new release every 6 months sustainable? Or even necessary? Is it just me or is each new release becoming just a little more buggy? It just seems like they're coming out of a sausage factory with the casings not quite tied off. I keep goi

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:05 +1100, Norm wrote: > You know, > > This may sound a little like heresy, but is a new release every 6 months > sustainable? Or even necessary? Is it just me or is each new release becoming > just a little more buggy? > > It just seems like they're coming out of a saus

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread IKT
There is no doubt 9.10 has been more buggier than normal largely due to the amount of new technologies going into it, I was quite aware of this as it seems like they were throwing a lot of the stuff into 9.10 so they can build on it, and feature complete it by 10.04, the bug issues have been mentio

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread Norm
OK Dave, I know exactly where you're coming from and it's my sentiment entirely. What I'm asking is could the virtualization improvements for example, be added to the LTS as a patch or upgrade, rather than have to wait 'till the next LTS? I have a client who would love to dump Windows, but un

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:41 +1100, Norm wrote: > OK Dave, > > I know exactly where you're coming from and it's my sentiment entirely. What > I'm > asking is could the virtualization improvements for example, be added to the > LTS as a patch or upgrade, rather than have to wait 'till the next L

Re: Paint Shop Pro3

2009-11-16 Thread Hugo Do Nascimento
Hi Chris 2009/11/11 Chris Jones > > > 32bit color depth, Please, look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEGL and http://meetthegimp.org/tag/gegl/ time machine, This is a pretty nice effect. Do you know how to replicate it in Gimp? Btw, have you tried Gimp->Filters->Decor->Coffee Stain and O

re re koala.

2009-11-16 Thread KENNETH RICHARDS
As I said on Whirlpool I believe that it is touchy. It installed OK. on the laptop but did not install on the desktop which has 2 HDD . On the desktop I decided to downgrade to 9.04 . Regards to all Ken Richards -- ubuntu-au