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Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out
Many readers are sending the news that Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released. Download options include mirrors and torrents. Wired has a review based on the release candidate: "Gamers and hardcore media hounds may still feel left out... but we found playing music and watching movies in the new Ubuntu to be every bit as pleasant as it is under OS X or Windows... Wi-Fi, printing, my digital camera and even my iPod all worked immediately after installation — no drivers or other software required... I did have to install additional codecs to get MP3 and Windows Media Audio support."
Cue thousands of Ubuntu noobs hammering the forums 'cause they can't work out how to edit a fucking text file.
URGENT!!!!! They will entitle their pleas.
But this works on Winblows!!! They will offer by way of justification for their interminable stupidity.
Do yourself a favour and stay away from the forums until they've given up and gone back to Vista.
You're a jerkoff, Anonymous Coward. If it were truly "impossible", then running the u-m manually like I said wouldn't work, though I said it did.
The point of the notification icon is that the system's ready state is pushed to the user for activation, rather than the user wasting all that time polling it with the menu access to u-m all the time until it's hit.
The vast majority of users just find out through some other means than a notification icon, like this Slashdot story or the onerous polling process. By which time there is an upgrade available, if they heard about it, but not as soon as it's available, so they're working with the unimproved version longer than they have to.
You really have no basis for conceited condescension when you can't even figure out what the notification icon is for. It's so basic. There's certainly one "fellow" Ubuntu user of whom I don't think much: you. And now I'm going to turn that into not thinking of you at all.
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make install -not war
Yeah, I did ask this "wise" community, which nearly entirely couldn't even figure out that it's the notifier, not the updater, that isn't working well. On the day the distro is released, and my notifier isn't showing, and the release is a Slashdot story, I'd think that just asking a question, then agreeing with the credible answer
Oh, and my notifier still wasn't notifying me, even though the Software Sources polling timer was "Daily", and it had been more than 24h since the new distro was available (and known to my update-mananger). I opened and closed the S-S dialog without any change, but then I opened it again, changed one preference, and on close was warned that the client state needed to be synced with the server. Which took several minutes, and left the dialog frozen, but without any "busy" cursor. So I clicked its window close icon, was warned that it wasn't finished, but couldn't tell whether it was just frozen in a loop, so I closed it anyway. I opened it again, toggled a preference, closed it, was warned the state needed syncing, accepted, waited a minute or so. And then finally got a notifier icon. That's crap software design.
But of course it's my fault, not the software's. Me and maybe several million other people with exactly my problem. With "smart" Ubuntu experts like you, no wonder its in the state its in.
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make install -not war