Ubuntu 9.10 upgrades breaking installation

The newest version of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu seems to be causing some major bugs for those who are upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. One of the major bugs which has been filed is a broken X installation which could prevent a user from logging in. Clean installations do not seem to be suffering from these problems.

Ubuntu’s 9.10 Release Candidate now available

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, made the Release Candidate of Ubuntu Linux 9.10 available on Thursday. Desktop, server and netbook versions of the code-named Karmic Koala release, built on the Linux 2.6.31 kernel, promises faster boot times and easier software development. Ubuntu will have multiple versions containing Gnome, KDE and XFCE desktop environments and will be released on October 29th.

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