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I am not impressed with Hardy, the most recent release of kubuntu/ubuntu. First off, you have to go through a lot of hassle(relatively speaking, of course) to keep Firefox 2, the stable release of Firefox. Firefox 2 is the version where Firebug works reliably. However, Hardy comes with Beta 5 of Firefox 3 which is only so-so, and you have to use the beta of firebug 1.1. Since doing installing that though, Firefox consistently hangs after a while. I don’t remember having this much problem with a Mozilla related browser on Linux since Netscape 4.72 back in ‘99.

The other thing that annoys me is that it appears the JRE for Open Office is borked. I haven’t been able to fix it yet. Granted I haven’t spent that much time trying to fix it, but it certainly didn’t work “out-of-the-box”. Now, it is conceivable that since I did an “upgrade” as opposed to a clean install, that may have caused some problems. In fact, now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve had single Kubuntu “upgrade” go smoothly. Not one.

Okay, so I am probably being too harsh, particularly since overall the experience has been great. And I’m not even remotely considering changing distros, but it is still annoying that it doesn’t just work. I would understand it better if were a “beta” upgrade, but this was a “release”.