I’ve been running the upcoming version of Ubuntu for about a week now. It’s codenamed Karmic Koala and will have version-number 9.10 when it’s released in stable towards the end of October.
Let’s just say it’s been an interesting week. And also, lets say that I’m a bit nuts for running this as my main OS since it’s significantly more prone to… err… personality defects than the last time I ran an Alpha, which was almost 1½ years ago when I ran the alpha of the then-upcoming 8.04 aka Hardy Heron.
But it’s impressive how fast it moves along. Almost daily there are improvements, and almost daily the experience of using Karmic becomes less like dancing polka in a minefield and more like using an actual operating system.
Also, I’ve finally started using Firefox 3.5. Version 3.5.2 to be precise. I gave up on the Artwiz-fonts that I’d been using as interface-fonts for more than a year. Partly because FF3.5 refuses to accept bitmapped fonts in it’s interface, but also because lately I’ve felt that the artwiz fonts while pretty to look at are increasingly difficult to read.