Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Out Now

wolfman

It's here at last.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

I've been running the beta's and RC. It's not hugely different from Feisty, but does have quite a few "under the hood" changes.

Improvement for me are:
- Better handling of monitor/graphics. Before if my pc didn't work at the resolution I'd just get a black screen. They've put something in to capture this and it reverts to a low res setting.
- Auto logging in for Keyrings!!! Great for wireless setups, no more hacks needed, and it'll work if your account is set to autologin.
- Fast user switching, not something I'll use but handy for my parents.
- Tracker, desktop search tool, very good too. Just like Google desktop.
- Restructing of some menu's, more logical etc...
- Freeze (possibly kernel freeze) (which seemed quite common in previous versions) has gone (for my pc's doesn't mean it'll apply to everyone though).

- Additional software in the repo's. Namely Filezilla (at last), Deluge (for torrents), ComputerTemp, and other updates (Pidgin now instead of Gaim).
- All the latest typicall updates Gnome, Linux kernel etc...

b33r

I think the really big step forward which may convince a lot of Xp users to change is that Gutsy has integrated ntfs-3g so it can now write to NTFS instead of just being able to read it, making file sharing between the two OS's a lot easier. That and the shiny gnome 2.2

Cerro

b33r wrote: »

I think the really big step forward which may convince a lot of Xp users to change is that Gutsy has integrated ntfs-3g so it can now write to NTFS instead of just being able to read it, making file sharing between the two OS's a lot easier. That and the shiny gnome 2.2

Now that's handy! Does that mean you can have Gutsy installed on an NTFS partition or does still need to be installed elsewhere?

adouglasmhor

Can you update it over fiesty without having to rebuild everything? (DVD playback etc.) I am a Linux Newb and am runing Mint Celena (Fiesty variant) wouldnt mind updating my core linux.

Cerro

For those willing to give it a try:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3674761

Its orientated to windows users so its nice and easy to understand. I'm sure there are better guides out there but at least this one is straight forward.

Thought just occured to me - has anyone tried using VMWare to run windows and then through it made .NET applications (dunno why I didn't think of that before), anyone have experience with it?

wolfman

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Can you update it over fiesty without having to rebuild everything? (DVD playback etc.) I am a Linux Newb and am runing Mint Celena (Fiesty variant) wouldnt mind updating my core linux.

Typically if you're upgrading (I think this only works if you have the version previous to the new one), open up a Terminal window a type:

gksu "update-manager -c"

The -c will check for distribution updates.

Rebuild everything? Do you mean as in compile? With the default repo's (and one added) it's easy to setup all the codecs, dvd playback and win32 codecs.

sudo apt-get install -y gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse;

I don't have the details with me, but I use the medubuntu (sp?) repo to get the non-free codecs as listed below (namely dvd playback).

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 w32codecs

wolfman

Cerro wrote: »

Now that's handy! Does that mean you can have Gutsy installed on an NTFS partition or does still need to be installed elsewhere?

No, you'll still need to use EXT3 or an equivalent to install Ubuntu.

I'd also recommend not writing to NTFS, it works, but there are still doubts as to how stable it is.

You're much better off converting completely to EXT3, and using EXT2 IFS to read/write to an EXT3 partition in XP/Vista in my opinion. That's the way I've had things setup for a couple of years.

I'd recommend a setup such as:

Partition 1 - Windows
Partition 2 - Ubuntu (ie /)
Partition 3 - SWAP
Partition 4 - /Home (mount as /home for Ubuntu when installing) (and use as a storage drive in Windows)

superscaper

Anybody know if it's any better with netgear hardware?

wolfman

What netgear hardware specifically?

Usually worth goggling. I know the WG311T (I think that's what it is called) wireless card works straight out of the box, even better than windows. If you're talking USB stuff, then it's typically a bit tricky to get working still.

superscaper

wolfman wrote: »

What netgear hardware specifically?

Usually worth goggling. I know the WG511T (I think that's what it is called) wireless card works straight out of the box, even better than windows. If you're talking USB stuff, then it's typically a bit tricky to get working still.

I gave away my old "sandbox" pc anyway. The wifi adapter I've still got for that (WG111 v1), it was such a pain to get it working and then it froze whenever I tried connecting to t'internet. So just curious whether they'd included the ndiswrapper etc in the install. Haven't goggled my main pc's card which is a WN311B.

spud17

Typically if you're upgrading (I think this only works if you have the version previous to the new one), open up a Terminal window a type:

Code:
gksu "update-manager -c"
The -c will check for distribution updates.

I'm on the old'un at the moment and have just looked at, system/update manager.

Here the page tells me I'm up to date, BUT there is also a wide box telling me,

"New distribution release '7.10' is available" further over to the right is a button marked 'Upgrade'

I'm going to try this rather than the terminal option.

See you on the other side! :eek: