I’m not too happy about my upgrade to Karmic Koala. That’s due both to my own stupidity (not backing up as fully as I should have done), and to a number of minor niggles.
For example: whilst wireless worked perfectly, my ethernet didn’t autoconnect. I fixed it by following the steps at Craig Mayhew’s blog, but that shouldn’t be necessary: this was a fresh install after all.
Also, there’s a hardware beep when I shut down. No kidding.
On the plus side, everything is very smooth, perhaps also due to the fact that I’m now running 64 bit. Just don’t ask about Flash and/or Java just yet.
Now I just need to wait until TeXLive 2009 hits the mirrors and I’ll be ready to start work again.
ugh. yeah. holding off on that one. I spent 6 hours manually extricating myself from dependency hell in an incremental feisty-to-jaunty upgrade. along the way, managed to pick up a atheros wifi kernel bug that panics/freezes completely at random (and persists in karmic).
tangentially — do you use Sweave?
Link | November 11th, 2009 at 12:34 am
I think I toyed with it a couple of times, but I never had a document that was complex enough to justify Sweave but computationally simple enough so that the whole process was brief/painless.
I thought that I would have more time to do these things properly now (literate programming, version control, the whole shebang), but after having wasted half the day with TeXLive installation (and still being unable to use unicode-math + xelatex), I doubt it…
Link | November 11th, 2009 at 12:40 am
texlive 2009 is available if you poke around the mirrors enough, sounds like you got it.
thanks for the tip re xelatex and extras. Such fun…so easy compared to NFSS horror I learned years ago (um, a decade ago).
Link | November 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pm