Anyone using Ubuntu 9.04?

[nmeyers-BigylZdZcsdmcu3hnIyYJQ at public.gmane.org (Nathan Meyers)]

David Kramer wrote:
> I was thinking of upgrading my laptop this weekend.  It sounds pretty
> stable.
>
> If you're using it, did you do a fresh install or an upgrade from Ibex?
>   
I've upgraded three Kubuntu hosts from Ibex (actually from the interim 
9.03 stuff, which I'd earlier upgraded from 8.whatever). So far, so 
good. Two things hung me up:

- I had a package with some broken dependencies, which I discovered by 
looking at logs after the upgrade refused to run. The package was 
kphotoalbum, which had required some gyrations to install on 9.03... 
after uninstalling it, I was able to proceed with the upgrade.

- The knetworkmanager applet, which I use on my laptop, has been 
replaced with a plasmoid. Took me awhile to figure out that one.

Other than that stuff, no problems and I'm happy with the results. I 
share the author's annoyance (below) at the disappearance of 
ctrl-alt-backspace... that's my usual way to log out. But I'm coping.

Nathan

> I read one disturbing thing from
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Ubuntu-904-the-Jaunty-Jackalope-Sports-Modest-Software-Improvements-But-Big-Plans-535187/?kc=EWKNLLIN04282009STR1
>
> "Also along the lines of making its graphics configuration less arcane,
> 9.04 is the first Ubuntu release to do away with the Vulcan-death-grip
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination that you can use on most Linux
> distributions to dislodge misbehaving graphical applications by killing
> your X server session. Once upon a time, this came in handy fairly
> often, and the fact that it's become an anachronism is a mark of Linux's
> maturity."
>
> Huh??!!  WTF would they remove the ability to kill the X server?  I
> don't care how damn stable they say it is, sometimes you get a
> hard-to-kill process and you just want to nuke from orbit without a
> complete restart.  Sometimes when I lose sound and I don't know what's
> got a hold of the device, that's my only recourse.  Can someone confirm
> this blasphemy for me?
>
> This article also says it breaks the ATI proprietary drivers, which
> doesn't affect me, but is too bad.
>
> ext4 sounds too risky for me, though better handling of big files would
> be handy on my MythTV drives.
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