Firstly, I am Australian, but now living in China (for 12 months). Please be patient with me because of this; my internet is incredibly slow, and many sites (including ubuntu forum) are blocked by the Chinese firewall, or often just too slow to load in full. If my connection was quicker I could consider using a secure vpn to get around this, but the thought of slowing down my browsing even more is just too much. Just to prove I am not exaggerating, my download speed is often measured in bytes/sec rather than kb/s. (The joys of a massive hotel run on a 10 base T network o.O)
Ultimate Edition 2.4 is pretty slick. Even Skype and Audacity work (the pulseaudio problems in Jaunty had forced me to keep Intrepid installed on another partition). I think this is the best linux distro I've tried so far, so well done to both Canonical and of course Theeman.
HOWEVER!
I cannot telnet to localhost. I use a little console app as a proxy, which I have tailored to my own needs. It adds some functionality to my telnet client. It compiles correctly, and appears to run correctly - but when I attempt to connect to localhost: 1523 it just does not connect. (I have tried a range of other ports also). I still have a Jaunty distro (MInt) on another partition, and it works correctly there.
I googled "connecting to localhost with telnet in karmic" and got a page full of similar complaints, many of them linked to ubuntu forum posts. These I cannot read so I do not know if there is a workaround.
If anyone has any advice/insight that might help, I will really appreciate it. I don't -like- Mint linux but it is the only non-Karmic I have left (and my connection speed is way too slow to download anything else).