Ubuntu 7.10 out today

[Dos_Box]

I'm downloading it now from the Dutch mirror. Nice features such as Compiz mean I will seriously consider this to replace XP on my workstation.


www.ubuntu.com

[Geoff]

ooo, time to update my workstation

[plock]

Our monitoring server will be getting the update shortly!

[mark]

Surprising amount of improvements over 6 months ago. Dolphin the file manager is loads better, wireless now sorted for a lot of cards including my broadcom (yay! ), lots of new apps. Just seems a lot easier to setup and use, especially for novices. I use Kubuntu BTW - prefer K.

[plock]

I've never used Kubuntu, any major differences?

[budgester]

And the best bit about it is, you don't have to wait outside PC World to be mugged for a £100 for your new copy.

Bad bit, I don't even feel like a pirate when burning a CD, so I feel a fake saying Arrrrrrr.

[CyberNerd]

I've never used Kubuntu, any major differences?

At risk of starting religious war but, IMO KDE is better for power users whilst gnome is designed to be easy to use - of course both are fully customisable.

[StewartKnight]

i've installed it... but can I get the bloody Compiz Fusion to work!!
GRRRRRR

[Dos_Box]

Compiz is fine here.

System - apperance - visual effects

Use alt-tab or windows key\tab to see

[budgester]

I've never used Kubuntu, any major differences?

At risk of starting religious war but, IMO KDE is better for power users whilst gnome is designed to be easy to use - of course both are fully customisable.

<religiuos war on>
Surely power users use Ion

http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/
or
http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
</religiuos war on>

[plock]

At risk of starting religious war but, IMO KDE is better for power users whilst gnome is designed to be easy to use - of course both are fully customisable.

hehe - I'm sure they both have their own advantages, that's what I was looking for. Not a war!

[localzuk]

At risk of starting religious war but, IMO KDE is better for power users whilst gnome is designed to be easy to use - of course both are fully customisable.

hehe - I'm sure they both have their own advantages, that's what I was looking for. Not a war!

Pff! Nonsense! We should all use Fluxbox!!

[Geoff]

Here are the upgrade instructions

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

[webman]

I'm excited for the release of Fluxbuntu!

Hmmm. Dare I do an upgrade on my home machine from work or will X screw up like it did with one of the 6.?? releases? :P

[localzuk]

I'm actually trialing Mandriva 2008 Powerpack at the moment. Seeing how things are going over there... Didn't cost that much either (I like to feed a bit of money back into these linux companies if I can).

I will try Ubuntu 7.10 somepoint next week... give the servers some time to recover :P