Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
Just a quick entry to stroke my inner geek. Since it’s waaaaaaaay off-topic for this blog, I figure it’s best kept short.
I’ve been running the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release candidate for a few days now, and I have to say it really is a big step up from 7.04.
I’m not going to say “LOL! it’s better than Vista LOLOL!”, because I’ve never used Vista. However, I will go so far as to say that its feel is much better than any iteration of Ubuntu I’ve ever used – It’s usable, stable, pretty (so, sooooo pretty!), and says (in its understated way, of course) “we’re serious about this”. Perhaps that’s all that matters.
I think I’m in love with it.
Seriously.
Tags: Linux is sexy, Release Candidate, Ubuntu 7.10
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October 16, 2007 at 10:37 am
Ubuntu rocks like a big rocky thing with rocks in at a rock concert.
That is all.
November 2, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Have you checked out Avant Window Manager yet?
November 3, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I take it you’re talking about the wee icon dock that sits at the bottom or top of your screen?
If that’s the case (or not
), the answer is “no” – I’ve seen it before on a few youtube “Watch Compiz-Fusion kick Aero Glass arse” videos, but I never bothered to seek it out.
I might try it though.
For a little frisson of eye-candy, I recommend Macslow’s Cairo-Clock – it runs on a compositing window manager like Compiz, so it’s got all sorts of bendy and stretchy goodness, and is easily skinnable.
there’s a picture of my current desktop here.
November 16, 2007 at 1:16 am
But can you get on the internet with it? I installed 7.04 a few months back but gave up trying to link it to the Internet. Have no clue if it’s something in the configuration or if my IP just doesn’t like Linux.
So,essentially, it is a pretty game box.
Like Linux, though, the whole idea, everything but getting it to “just work”.
November 16, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I haven’t had any problems getting Linux (particularly Ubuntu) to connect to the internet since I installed Fedora Core 6 on my Laptop, but the drivers for my wireless card weren’t included in the distribution. That was over two years ago though.
Are you conneting via ethernet or wireless card?
If you connect via wireless, what is the brand of the card?
What wireless security do you use? WEP? WPA?
I suspect that your wireless card’s drivers aren’t included by default in the distribution.
There are solutions, but you’d need to get back to me before I type any more – it’s an involved process!
The other solution: try 7.10 – it’s better than 7.04, and may include the drivers for the card, particularly if your wireless card/laptop is fairly new.
March 16, 2008 at 12:09 am
I’ve given up on linux in general as being a fringe o/s that isn’t ready for the mainstream. I’ve tried to versions of ubuntu without success – it wouldn’t even install. I then tried suse on recommendation and it installed but after 3 hours of trying everything possible I couldn’t get internet access. This was on a desktop not a laptop so I wasn’t even dealing with the known wireless issues.
I’ll stick to windows since it “just” works.
March 16, 2008 at 6:55 am
Interesting. I haven’t had any unresolvable issues with Linux installs in general since 2004 – the biggest issue I’ve had recently was getting Ubuntu 7.10 to install on an 8800GT, since it was released after the distro went live. It was solved by using the text-based installer.
I’d suggest that your network issues were due to drivers, but without any more information I couldn’t suggest anything more.
Computing is about choice – I use Windows for gaming and music sequencing. I use Ubuntu for pretty much everything else. I take issue with “Windows just works” though. It doesn’t, the companies that design and manufacture the hardware make it work . As you’ve experienced, it’s all about the drivers.