I just looked up what Karmic Koala is, and it is Ubuntu 9.x. I have not tried to use that recently, but I am quite happy running 14.x today, and it runs everyt

I just looked up what Karmic Koala is, and it is Ubuntu 9.x. I have not tried to use that recently, but I am quite happy running 14.x today, and it runs everything I need. I use IntelliJ 13.x for my Git stuff, Geany for most of my text editing, a dozen different browsers at whatever versions they are for my Web things, and whatever versions of mpv, mc, LibreOffice, etc. it came with for what those programs do. With only 1GB of RAM it's not always as snappy as I'd like, but I use the periods of swapping to meditate. I don't have to use programs released today, only ones which I need today.