I have to say that this is by far the buggiest beta release of Ubuntu I’ve ever used. I question if it’s a good idea to release on the stated date or to push it off for a few more weeks.
First off sudo does not work because it’s looking for the hostname and if it’s not Ubuntu or in the hosts file it locks you out of doing most administrative tasks. The fix is to boot into recovery mode as root and edit the file and reboot.
Second synergy is completely broken to the point it requires it to be started as root to even be usable. That’s fine, but I’d rather it’d be fixed to work properly. Also let me discover the issue above.
Trying to load up the hardware drivers under System > Administration > Hardware Drivers crashes.
Also the network configuration, firefox, and even the update utility have all crashed on me.
To say the least I feel that this release is still Alpha quality and to call it a Beta release does nobody any good. I hope they decide to push this off for a bit to resolve some of these issues. I’ve probably burned up that crash report tool in the short time I’ve upgraded and hope that updates will eventually fix some of these problems.
Also does anyone else think it’s time for a little visual upgrade?