Karmic < 2 Weeks
Is it bad that I'm getting excited?
I always look forward to the Ubuntu releases, I don't know why, I've started running the pre-release from around alpha 5 or alpha 6 so I know pretty much exactly how it's going to be. Though I do plan on seeding the torrents again for at least 2 weeks 
So as soon as the .torrent files are there, I'll be grabbing it to seed, though limiting because I don't want to hog all the bandwidth on the VPS!
Other than that plan, I'm hoping to get more involved in Lucid Lynx (10.04) if I can, and if I can find the time. But right now, I'm happy with Karmic, it's shaping up to be an awesome release, and I'll most certainly be mentioning it to those people who say "Linux just isn't ready yet", I think we've come a surprising way in 6 months, and a HUGE step from when Ubuntu first started those short few years ago.
And as I did with Jaunty - I'll be posting my seeding stats after around 2 weeks, just to share, it's always interesting to know how many people use(d) torrents as opposed to straight http/ftp downloads.
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October 14th, 2009 - 01:05
What about physical disc torrents? LoCo-based Shipit distribution networks? Speaking of, do you think there’ll be 64 bit discs available by Shipit this time around?
October 14th, 2009 - 01:12
It is entirely cool to get so excited! I can’t wait too, mainly because I can’t wait for the wider Ubuntu user base to see the results of all of our efforts over the last six months.
Aside from that, Karmic is just rocking!
Jono
October 14th, 2009 - 05:30
Unfortunately Karmic has been very unstable for me. I don’t think I’ll be able to upgrade right away or even at all.
Indeed a lot of awesome changes took place for Karmic, but it’s just not working good for me.
October 14th, 2009 - 10:23
Hey Joeb454,
I too am excited. I’ve been trying out the UNR beta. Very cool! Pity the updates stopped working. ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1289558 )
Don’t know if I will be able to seed yet, I have to check how I am doing at the moment. Should be okay, possibly, maybe…erm
Karmic is by far the best release I have tried and I am deeply impressed!
October 15th, 2009 - 14:47
I was very excited about “One Hundred Paper Cuts” project https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/karmic but it seems to have stalled
Not even critical bugs from it got enough attention: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/61237
Mat Tomaszewski wrote:
“During our recent usability tests one of the subjects (an accountant, using Windows/MS Excel daily) had huge problems with dragging and dropping a file (exactly as described here) and, after about five minutes of trying – already very frustrated – had to revert to right-click copy and file>paste to finally succeed. I don’t have to mention that by that moment his opinion about Ubuntu had already been formed.
Issues like that hurt Ubuntu’s reputation greatly.”