Muhammad Irfan Khairin

Recently, the ubuntu team has announce the alpha release for 9.10. I'm writing this post on KUBUNTU 9.10 alpha3. For more details on kubuntu release go here. After having a test drive with my most use applications for almost 1 week so here what I can summaries:

• Kubuntu 9.10 use KDE 4.3 rc3. It has a lot of bugs but it becomes more polished looks. It's ok coz this is an alpha kubuntu release and the KDE itself still a release candidate.
  
• Kubuntu 9.10 KDE 4.3 rc3 use Arora as a default web browser other then Konqueror.
  
• Another test drive with Google Chrome in Kubuntu 9.10 KDE 4.3 rc3. The browser itself now stable but without flash plugin. You can however get the flash support by doing the instruction on linux-splash like this.
  
• The lovely Opera Dragonfly in action
  
• The OpenOfficeOrg 3.1 has KDE4 unified look on toolbar and menubar provided you install the openoffice.org-gtk
  
• The Metatrader4 + wine on Kubuntu with OSX msstyle
  

The problem I'm facing are:

• Kopete frequently crash but solved after apt-get upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade command
  
• Arora frequently crash
  
• Kmail seldomly crash but solved after apt-get upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade command
  
• Grub 2 seem to install properly but cannot detect my windows xp. You will have a problem running on dual boot. But it's solved after running grub command from recovery mode at boot.