Joseph Brower

As many of you already know, Ubuntu 10.04 is slated to be released April 29th.  So I figured I’d grab the release candidate, throw it onto my workstation, and give it a try.  I know that there may be a few bugs and such, but usually by this point, anything major has been fixed.

First off, the only problem that I’ve had thus far is that my webcam doesn’t seem to work in Skype anymore.  It simply isn’t detected.  It worked perfectly in 9.10, but I guess drivers have changed, and Skype doesn’t know where to look now.  The camera still works in Cheese and such, so I’m confident it’s something like that.

Other than that, I’ve found the bootup to be quicker by a few seconds.  Also, the installation was very streamlined and easier to work with.  The updated packages are great.  Even my g15 keyboard has better packages now.  The new theme is nice, but the icons on the left side take some getting used to.  Once you get used to it though, it isn’t all that bad.  This has also been more stable. Before I would get Xorg restarts when using ram intensive applications, that appears to have been fixed now.  Only time will tell though.  Let me know how it works for you.