Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Savvas Radevic
Ubuntu karmic 9.10 is officially out! Give it a spin and let us know if everything works as expected. The live cd environment or a virtual machine is perfect for testing. :-) P.S. Sorry for the extra short announcement, the official announcement is attached. -- Forwarded message --

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Mario Spinthiras
Ok. This is about as far as I go with Ubuntu (desktop). The server is progressing in exactly the right direction. But for the love of God! , what is going on with the visuals? It has been "brown" for as long as I remember, and now it is moving toward yellow. That is more than enough reason to know

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Brendan Jocson
Warex is always one to complain :) /me waves! Mario Spinthiras wrote: Ok. This is about as far as I go with Ubuntu (desktop). The server is progressing in exactly the right direction. But for the love of God! , what is going on with the visuals? It has been "brown" for as long as I remember, a

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Mario Spinthiras
Greetings from a dark Cisco lab with lots of wires in a university in London =) . /me waves back. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Brendan Jocson wrote: > Warex is always one to complain :) /me waves! > > Mario Spinthiras wrote: > >> Ok. This is about as far as I go with Ubuntu (desktop). The

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Thanos Lefteris
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mario Spinthiras wrote: > Ok. This is about as far as I go with Ubuntu (desktop). The server is > progressing in exactly the right direction. But for the love of God! , what > is going on with the visuals? It has been "brown" for as long as I remember, > and now it

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Savvas Radevic
I think it's stuck with that look because they aimed for the new splash screen software... Or because they wanted newbies to have a "stable" picture of ubuntu as an operating system. Either way, we just have to wait and see the next stable version, 10.04! Btw, there is a package with community them

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 released

2009-10-29 Thread Mario Spinthiras
Mark Shuttleworth has been bothered enough about themes. He should know where priorities stand so far with the desktop edition. I am not blaming him nor insulting him, I am just reminding him what hundreds, possibly thousands of others have already bothered him with. With the release of gnome 3 ,