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- Carpex, on 11/10/2007, -3/+86What you get if you type Gibbon in Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXYZX9mGqA
Not very good news for Apple. - cowboy77061, on 10/16/2007, -3/+52I have been running Ubuntu for a week now and I love it. I'm going to delete my Windows partition soon.
- geoken, on 10/13/2007, -0/+43That's awesome. I always thought the name Gutsy Gibbon was kind of lame but after watching that video I realized the Gibbon has the skills of the ninja.
- noseeme, on 10/14/2007, -9/+48Why does this story have nothing to do with Ron Paul?
- Jambi, on 10/13/2007, -14/+51Fellow patriots, I'm here today to talk to you about an insidious new movement making its way across the country this very moment. Drugs, homosexuals and those evil Mohammedans all pale in comparison to the threat that is Software Communism! Every moment of every day, sinister hippie programmers are out to pervert the American way of life by toiling away at software that they then give away for free! Free! These communists are out to undermine our great capitalist system by destroying Microsoft, one of the corporations that's made America what it is today...this is nothing but techno-terrorism, I say! These free software loving, scraggly-haired flower picking pansies must be stopped!!! Do you want to live in a country where you get everything for free, where men marry other men, and pot smoke fills the air?! Where right-thinking patriots like Steve Ballmer are ridiculed, and some fat sandle-wearing European controls the computer industry? It's just the thin end of the wedge. If we let this Software Communism grow, next thing we know, Lenin will be breaking out of his tomb and leading an army of Democrats down Main Street U.S.A! I for one won't stand for it! We need to nip this thing in the bud! Everyone, go down to your local store right away and buy as many copies of Windows Vista as you can...if you don't, the Communists win! Do it for the Gipper! (God rest his senile soul)
- sirhomer, on 10/14/2007, -4/+41Ron Paul surfs Digg using Ubuntu on a iMac while talking on his iPhone.
- armo, on 10/13/2007, -0/+35Holy *****, that really is gutsy.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -1/+29Wow its true: http://www.google.com/trends?q=Ubuntu%2C+Jesus&cta ...
- komputes, on 10/14/2007, -10/+35"Do you want to live in a country where you get everything for free, where men marry other men, and pot smoke fills the air?!"
Hell Yeah! Oh, wait I already live there. It's Called CANADA! Oh, and another thing, your dollar sucks cuz u did war!
Ubuntu rocks! - MrHighTech, on 10/13/2007, -0/+25I am a professional developper and there used to be many things I couldn't do in Linux. Writing to NTFS partitions, good support for my video card (ATI), for my wireless card (without ndiswrapper or the fwcutter mess). The list goes on... good openvpn support, proper compatibility with exchange servers.
Well, it's been a week now since I have made the switch, and I didn't boot windows once. Everything works. I'm very happy about it AND as a bonus, I've discovered my laptop has a subwoofer. Who knew it took Linux to discover hardware on a certified windows laptop!
I'm not turning back. I invite you to give the Gibbon a fair go. And looking forward to the October fglrx + aiglx release!
yes... October 2007 will be a month to remember :) - mik3pass, on 10/16/2007, -1/+25I can't believe that it's just 7 more days until the newest version of the greatest linux system that gets more Google searches than Jesus is released. I'll say that I'm somewhat looking forward to it... yeah...
- swchen, on 10/13/2007, -1/+24Can't wait for final version.
- fatejudger, on 10/24/2007, -3/+26Windows /0 = undefined
Idiot. - sirhomer, on 10/13/2007, -0/+22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZn5nWIj_g
Better quality.
OS X Tiger getting butt kicked by a Gutsy Gibbon - whiteguysamurai, on 10/13/2007, -5/+26Already running it, runs great.
Had to enable all software sources to get fglx to install, then after Compiz refused to run.
So had to do it the old fashioned way, and install Xgl.
Great OS! - mercurysquad, on 10/16/2007, -0/+20It's just the development code-name, official name is Ubuntu 7.10. But the codenames just stay after release also.
- sparrowkc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Well * I * Have been running it since tribe ONE! That makes me better than all of you.
- DocHoliday22, on 10/16/2007, -1/+19Release candidate is as good as the final. Read the notes, they say that the final release will contain fixes to serious bugs but this is rare.
- Amackera, on 10/13/2007, -2/+20You're not missing anything, you're just being over-critical.
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 10/13/2007, -3/+20If ATi or nVidia didn't release proper drivers for Windows, users would burn them to the ground.
But since its Linux - hey, who cares! - Cherubim, on 10/13/2007, -0/+17Looks like I'll finally be going Ubuntu/Gnome full time. Windows XP can piss off and Vista can go jump :)
- trogdoor, on 10/13/2007, -1/+16I'm just tired, and looking at it again his post made a lot more sense than mine :)
- theratster, on 10/13/2007, -4/+18Don't you mean 30-50% DECREASE in boot time?
- qbproger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16i made the switch in january.
- k7k0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Oh YES!! Just throw away those 5-year-release-cycle trash!
- realityiswhere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12livecd doesn't work %100 for everyone, try the alternate (text based, but not difficult) installer.
- EndersGame, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Hey watch it buddy all the white house has to do is find a daughter of a second cousin of a friend of this dude that has a neighbor that works with a guy that plays HALO 3 with an Al Qaeda terrorist and bam we got ourselves an Al Qaeda leader operating in Canada. Add to that FOX telling all the red states that you guys have a horrible dictator and "Canadia" is located in between Iraq and Iran, Bush will have everything he needs to nuke your asses back to the first ice age.
- mrmacky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Well I've had it since the tribe 3, just been trickling it through the updates.
I have noticed, at least a 30-50% increase in boot time. It's not even funny how fast this thing boots. (Compared to 6.10, and compared to XP boot times).
I can't wait for it to go final so I can grab an ISO and do a fresh install with this ;) - Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11From PainToad's link:
When Ubuntu 7.10 is officially released, you can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure.
1. Open System/Administration/Update Manager
2. Click the Check button to check for new updates
3. A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release
4. Click Upgrade
5. Follow the on-screen instructions
that's the simplest way, painfully simple really... - louiedog, on 10/16/2007, -0/+10Maybe they're regular names for sexy whores.
- ramvi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10trogdoor is absolutely correct.The ATI driver doesn't support AIGLX yet. AIGLX is needed for transforming the regular desktop into the sexy 3d desktop (which is the application called Compiz Fusion). AIGLX will however be supported by the ATI driver released this month!
With no AIGLX, a 3d overlay has to be run. That is Xgl.
Type this into the terminal: sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl #and will activate it for the next time to log in. - Carpex, on 10/16/2007, -0/+10Comment - idea = AHHHHH
- canthraxp, on 10/16/2007, -0/+10"Tiger", "Leopard" are those operative systems or sexy names for whores?
- motang, on 10/13/2007, -0/+10Here you go - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/RC?highlight=% ...
- PainToad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades
Answered own Qs - Fergy, on 10/13/2007, -0/+9Linus Torvalds looks like he's anorexic compared to Americans.
- baysbenj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I've been running beta for 2 weeks now and haven't had a single problem. Compiz is still a little glitchy with ATI cards, but it is a large improvement.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9RC is a release candidate, that means its a candidate for being the final release unless some major bug is discovered.
I doubt many bugs have slipped past by now, at least not ones that they would bother making another candidate for at this point.
OpenSource software probably has by far the longest testing, the original developer tests the code, the other people interesting in that particular project grab it from source, Debian puts it into unstable where its tested again, Ubuntu pulls from unstable, Debian testing also get its a week or so later (which is tracked by the Ubuntu maintainers), Hurd/Tribe/Alpha releases are tested, then Betas and finally Release Candidates. Then there are 20million people running it in final.
Unfortunately there are quite a few noncritical bugs or feature enhancements that are ignored or marked WONTFIX etc... ☹ - pHr34kY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You'll probably find that the 'newness' of your laptop is the problem. Drivers take a while to propagate into the open-source world, often without the support of the manufacturer - especially when it comes to laptops.
Try it out on an older machine. It'll probably be more responsive than windows on a newer PC anyway. - LinuxGalore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8lol
- buggu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8For stage6 videos, you need the mplayer-mozilla browser plugin.
For Bittorrent, there are two excellent clients (Deluge for Gnome, KTorrent for KDE). Since I use Gnome, I recommend Deluge (which is very similar to Utorrent on Windows). - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -3/+11I have been using desktop Linux for about 3 or 4 years now, Gentoo before Ubuntu. Still have windows partition for games though :/
Really need WINE to work better, or get a DirectX>OpenGL wrapper to run under a virtual environment. - MavRevMatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8And so tell me, what is Apple? Not childish?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9 No no. It's 6-7 year release cycle.
- Fergy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Did you report these bugs?
- emblemparade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I have no special emotional attachment to any operating system, just looking to get the most out of my computer. And, I must say, that Gutsy is the best operating system experience I've ever had. On a whim, I decided to go with the AMD64 edition, something that burned me a bit in previous versions of Ubuntu (and definitely in Windows), and I always turned back to 32bits, somewhat defeated. But, I gotta say, everything simply works now, and I see no reason to go back to 32bits. They solved all the annoying problems with getting plugins to run with 64bit Firefox. It was quite straightforward to install Google Earth and Skype, too.
It's been fun to see how more and more little bugs were solved via updates since Beta Tribe 5.
Just as a note for those who are tired with all the attention Ubuntu is getting: all the major Linux-based operating systems seem to have had terrific releases recently, mostly because they are using a lot of the same software, but also because all the teams matured their integration methods and quality control. This is an exciting time to be part of the world of free operating systems, whatever it is you are running! - Stonekeeper, on 10/13/2007, -0/+8Then donate some money to them! No, it's not money wasted.
- Surkow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You answered your own question.
_Yes_
It will be upgraded to the final version of Gutsy. - realityiswhere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7it's actually possible just to "update-manager -d" now, and it dist upgrades and modifies its own /etc/apt/sources.list itself, with a GUI!
- Baltoche, on 10/13/2007, -1/+8We Europeans are not fat!
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