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I've been using the RC of Mint 10 or "Julia" if you prefer, for the last 4 weeks.
I decided to try it out on the HP laptop first, and all appeared to be well until I tried to use the wireless. The connection would be made to the D-link router, would hold for approx 2 minutes and then would be lost. The router was just a couple of meters away and the signal strength was shown as 100% during the times that the connection was made.
This cycle would repeat over and over again, with 2 minutes connection and a 30 second wait for a re-connection. The HP never had this problem with previous installs (mint, ubuntu, fedora and sabayon), so I was sure this was a Mint 10 problem. A quick look through the ubuntu forums found that I was not alone - the ath9k wireless driver (as used for many wifi cards) has some issues and from what I understand, something somewhere is triggering a re-set command to be sent to the wifi card itself. I'd also tried 2 "patched" ath9k drivers, but same results. I've gone back to Mint 9 for the moment and sent the associated bug reports. Hopefully this problem will be resolved for the official release, as a laptop with no wifi is a bit naff.
On the the upside Mint 10 looks good and it's as fast as lightening. After a bit of tweaking the laptop was booting up around the 15 second mark - not bad! As you would expect from the Mint team, everything else was polished to perfection so the final release should be great. Wireless woes aside, I would give the RC 8/10.
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