Dos_Box Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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. http://www.ubuntu.com
plock Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 Our monitoring server will be getting the update shortly!
MkII Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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 Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 I've never used Kubuntu, any major differences?
budgester Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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 Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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 Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 i've installed it... but can I get the bloody Compiz Fusion to work!! GRRRRRR
Dos_Box Posted October 18, 2007 Author Report Posted October 18, 2007 Compiz is fine here. System - apperance - visual effects Use alt-tab or windows key\tab to see
budgester Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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. Surely power users use Ion http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ or http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
plock Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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 Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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 Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 Here are the upgrade instructions http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
webman Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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?
localzuk Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 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
StewartKnight Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 what graphics card are you using DB?
webman Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 I don't want anything to do directly with Mandriva after they changed their name and fired Duval. PCLinuxOS 2007 is very good though
localzuk Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 I don't want anything to do directly with Mandriva after they changed their name and fired Duval. PCLinuxOS 2007 is very good though Well, the way I see it is this - they have made some significant corporate linux inroads in the last few years (ie. 250,000 linux desktops in the french govt. etc...) and as such are a company worth supporting. I also donate to other projects when I get the chance though. Mandriva 2008 does seem to be good though, it only took me a couple of minutes to fix the problem with wireless access - and that was with a usb wireless dongle that I've failed to get running on every linux OS I have tried it on. However, the do seem to have messed up the Cedega install - not including the actual cededga engine, so it doesn't work...
CyberNerd Posted October 18, 2007 Report Posted October 18, 2007 I also donate to other projects when I get the chance though. I get a really good adsl service through these guys, http://www.ukfsn.org/ they donate to free software projects on my behalf. Well the Ubuntu upgrade on the laptop worked flawlessly, as usual. no messing about hunting down drivers or crawling the internet for all the 'extra' apps that windows needs to function like a proper operating system ! I'll be upgrading my school workstation tomorrow. Just wish the rest of the school machines were this easy !
StewartKnight Posted October 19, 2007 Report Posted October 19, 2007 The ubuntu help forums are brilliant! Even I have now managed to get the bling working! What effects are there???
Guest richard Posted October 19, 2007 Report Posted October 19, 2007 Well it didn't like my wireless card on my home laptop yet again and its an intel one as well
Geoff Posted October 19, 2007 Report Posted October 19, 2007 I have no graphics. The nvidia drivers in the restricted repo do not support my GeForce 4000 TI. Off to Nvidia.com I go
CyberNerd Posted October 21, 2007 Report Posted October 21, 2007 I did fresh install of school workstation - no probs. Now I find a problem with an upgrade to my home workstation, evms is broken (mirrored raid), but works when I revert to earlier kernel (or boots if I disable evms https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evms/+bug/115616 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/141435 Just a headsup for anyone running evms on servers and considering a gutsy upgrade.
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