Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2 available

[TWPonKubuntu]

Lastest:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/re...14.04/alpha-2/

FYI: Use for testing only. THIS IS STILL AN ALPHA RELEASE.

[GreyGeek]

Of course, those who installed Alpha 1 are upgraded automatically to Alpha 2.

My own experience with Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 1 is that it is remarkably stable.

[TWPonKubuntu]

...My own experience with Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 1 is that it is remarkably stable.

That matches my experience, but I would not want an unaware user to install an alpha release, thinking it was a fully vetted version... Such things have been known to happen...

[NoWorries]

Of course, those who installed Alpha 1 are upgraded automatically to Alpha 2.

My own experience with Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha 1 is that it is remarkably stable.

I also found it quite stable, however there were a couple of "odd" events. For example, I found the Wireless Network connection appearing during login and then permanently at top centre of the screen. A click on it removed it.

Because of this and other oddities, I installed Alpha 2 over Alpha 1 and everything is now behaving as it should. In the past I have tended to install each pre-release version to make sure that dependencies are all in order. This is straight forward for me as I have separate partitions for home and root.

[GreyGeek]

Odd indeed. I have experienced no "oddness" since I installed or after any of the updates, including one this morning.

I selected the btrfs filesystem during the install of Apha and I am very pleased with it. I have some posts of my experience in a thread about btrfs started by Oceanluver.

[NoWorries]

Sounds like btrfs is the way to go. I have Ext4 for all my partitions, but I do not think this is responsible for what I have experienced.

For a new system I install all the applications that I have on the previous release. An example of the packages that I install is:

nfs-kernel-server, ssh, krename, hplip-gui, xsane, acroread, Avidemux-qt, Kaffeine
vlc,libxine1-all-plugins, Audacity, linux-firmware-nonfree, ffmpeg, recordmydesktop, libavcodec-extra-53, firefox, Skype, googleearth, gimp-data-extras, gimp-plugin-registry, Hugin, digikam, kubuntu-restricted-extras, icedtea-6-plugin, yawp, libreoffice-base, libreoffice-report-builder, dibus, gst123

For my video information shown below on my muon system it shows that I have a 3D accelerator (top image). On my trusty system it shows that the 3D accelerator is unknown (bottom image). I tried adding the fglrx and fglrx-amdccle packages but that crashed the desktop. I got it working again and then repeatedly got a system error message as well as the wireless connection message every time I booted.

So with these problems and the fact that I installed lots of other applications, I thought it would be much faster to install the Alpha 2 and have another go at trying to break the system.