Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Out

[nikster]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/ubuntu-...ops-our-hearts/

[jackk]

It's available almost 10 days earlier than planned (roadmap was oct. 26th).

But as usual the ISO CD is still not available in Thailande at http://mirror.in.th today.

The quickest download I could get was from Taiwan http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/7.10/ (more or less 120kbit/s)

[Guest Reimar]

Take a look at SoftPedia where you even con download the different versions of 7.10.

Softpedia has a good review and screenshots.

[Insight]

Looking forward to trying this one out myself, but waiting until I've got a different machine. Found running XP in VMWare a bit too slow and (still) need XP for the majority of my work.

[Florin]

Ubuntu has been getting quite good lately, installing it is a breeze and mobile support has improved tremendously. Linux has come a long way towards full usability for regular people!

[higgy88]

It's available almost 10 days earlier than planned (roadmap was oct. 26th).

But as usual the ISO CD is still not available in Thailande at http://mirror.in.th today.

The quickest download I could get was from Taiwan http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/7.10/ (more or less 120kbit/s)

I downloaded it last night from the Thailand link on the Ubuntu mirror list here ubuntu download mirrors

I've never used linux before and was waiting for this to get my feet wet. I'm in the market for a new computer and I just do not want Windows anymore. I will be turning over my Windows XP computer to my to my two kids so I won't have to fight them anymore. I've been playing around running it from the live CD today, but will really have to wait until the kids are back in school to get into it. I may be on this forum asking alot of questions, but the ubuntu forum is just jack full of good info.

higgy

[Guest Reimar]

The Thaland Ubuntu Mirror works very well. I downloaded with above 200 kB the whole time.

The direct Link is: http://th.releases.ubuntu.com

[cdnvic]

It's available almost 10 days earlier than planned (roadmap was oct. 26th).

But as usual the ISO CD is still not available in Thailande at <a href="http://mirror.in.th" target="_blank">http://mirror.in.th</a> today.

The quickest download I could get was from Taiwan <a href="http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/7.10/" target="_blank">http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/7.10/</a> (more or less 120kbit/s)

Probably didn't want to get buried under the Leopard release so they let it out of the cage a bit early.

Gonna upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon today. Wonder when they'll stop trying to be cute with the silly names?

Edited October 20, 2007 by cdnvic

[cdnvic]

So far I'm finding it a bit buggy from a visual standpoint in KDE. Display often goes a bit weird.

[jackk]

Regarding the display the first thing I noticed is that Xorg 7.3 is much better and faster. With version 7.04, glxgears gave me 1700FPS with a lot of tweakings, but now I get 2000FPS right out of the box with all compiz-fusion pluggins running. I might get 100FPs more with some tweaking.

My laptop video card is ATI 128MB and screen 1400x1050.

[cdnvic]

It doesn't seem to want to retain my visual settings so I need to adjust it all over again after reboot.

[Richard-BKK]

Hi cdnvic

Happened to me also one time, I did not edited the display settings using the sudo command, so they did not saved.

For me this new Gutsy Ubuntu runs smooth and it feels more stable, hard to explain, Feisty did never let me down and it almost feels like cheating now I installed Gutsy.

[cdnvic]

I did a clean install after using Drake for a year and the increase in speed is very apparent, though I attribute some of that to installing Kde instead of Gnome.

[nikster]

I tried to use the update option in Edgy Eft to go to 7.10 - no dice.

They have a nice interface and all, and you just hit update in the update manager until you get the option to upgrade to the new version. Then, you get a nice interface to upgrade.

Sadly, my internet connection went down for a little bit during the install process and there was no recovery. I was informed that most likely there had been a network error. But then, it proceeded to install or not install stuff - I don't know which - and then prompted me to restart. From then on the upgrade didn't work anymore. Oh well, clean install it is then.

[stub]

Gonna upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon today. Wonder when they'll stop trying to be cute with the silly names?<br />

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Feel free to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 instead. You can have Ubuntu with or without silly names.

[cdnvic]

Gonna upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon today. Wonder when they'll stop trying to be cute with the silly names?<br />

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Feel free to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 instead. You can have Ubuntu with or without silly names.

I went with Kubuntu (not a big Gnome fan)

I just think the cutsie names confuse some people when the whole idea behind behind Ubuntu was to take Linux out of the realm of the geek and into the hands of mainstream users.

[nikster]

I now upgraded to Gutsy - I must say it was a bumpy ride, with some major caveats, and a regression from Feisty.

Things that worked in Feisty, and what I had to do to make it work in Gutsy:

- Graphics card, ATI X1600 mobility. Worked out of the box in Feisty. In 7.10, the card was recognized and it downloaded the restricted drivers automatically but then I was stuck with no 3D acceleration and unable to set the screen resolution to anything higher than 1280x1024. Which looked pretty awful on my 1680x1050 screen.

Resolution: Had to resort to some command line voodoo which I found in the ubuntu help forums. There is a command line command which allows you to set the driver and the available screen resolutions from the terminal. Restart and it was fine. In the previous ubuntu version, none of this was neccessary, it did all of that automatically as it should.

- Wireless (again!!). Worked just fine in Feisty. In 7.10, it works but it's dead slow. I got 5 - 10KB/s throughput on the wireless card, the Mac connected to the same connection got 50KB.

Resolution: Turning off IPv6 and entering some optimized parameters for broadband in a config file as explained in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=581055&page=7

- Suspend - I don't know if this worked previously, but I was kind of expecting suspend mode to crash the machine, and it did. When will they get it together with suspend mode support, can't be that hard, can it? I haven't searched for a solution to that yet.

Ubuntu still doesn't supply codecs for even the most basic audio/video formats, but when you try to play, it automatically downloads them. Not without a lot of berating warnings on how "bad" these drivers are, which is very silly IMHO. But OK it does it and then plays my audio/video files fine.

It's a long road.... can't honestly recommend this for non-techies.

Edited October 25, 2007 by nikster

[stumonster]

Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee

The Gibbonfest continues. We've just had an Asus Eee in to look at - the £220 laptop that everyone who's seen it is going to buy. It's one of the hottest things in the office this year: the combination of the insanely low price tag, the perfectly functional specification (512MB RAM, 4GB internal flash SSD, wi-fi, real keyboard, VGA display) and its extreme portability makes it an instant hit.