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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."
TFS: hardcore media hounds may still feel left out...
Amarok. There's nothing like it on any other platform.
If you have to install additional software to get MP3 support, the music-playing experience is, almost by definition, not as pleasant as it is under OS X.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to build the torrent protocol into the Debian package management ? That way we could get the best of both worlds, fast download on days like these and and great package management.
I'd recommend backing it up regardless of what people say. I've never heard someone complain about having a backup they didn't need, yet I've often heard people complain about not having a backup they needed.
Using openSUSE instead of Windows since 9th of October, 2007 and liking it.
While the video drivers should just work and probably will for most people. I had a different experience, after the upgrade(which I did on Sunday) was done it prompted me to reboot, after I did this it went to grub, and then the ubuntu screen with the loading status bar. Afterwards I got a black screen on my laptop. Rebooted, same thing. Plugged it into my dock to try that, and the monitor didn't receive a signal. The only thing I could do was get into recovery mode and get to the console.
I would recommend that before you upgrade, and just in general, you burn a live CD, so that if something wrong you have a way of at least connecting to the internet and getting to ubuntu forums. I actually had to use my Wii to post to the ubuntu forums where someone was able to give me an hpkg reconfigure command that I could use in recovery mode. Wasn't too fun typing on my Wii.
I thought they were for porn and warez?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Somebody who writes code for a living and can afford to buy a commercial IDE probably does not care whether they have to pay for a Windows license or not.
I see many weakish answers to this post, but the simplest answer is that Linux simply isn't a gamer's OS right now. And that's fine.
It isn't something anyone developing Linux or working on Ubuntu can just fix. Gaming is always going to fall to the OS with the biggest installbase because of the money involved. All the Linux folks can do is keep polishing and pushing to make desktop Linux a better experience... so that one day they'll have a profitable userbase for the gaming companies to address.
Maybe it seems like Linux geeks are underestimating the importance of gaming, but I don't think that's the case. Projects like Wine and Cedega strive to hit a moving target in the dark, just in efforts to bring you folks over... But we'll only ever see mixed results from that.
From my point of view though, gamers may overestimate their own importance to the adoption of Linux at this time. Because gaming will fall to the biggest (desktop) installbase, how is it going to help an OS that is currently running third? All it can really do is solidify the lead of whoever is in first. Right?
And, contrary to the opinion of many gamers, there are throngs of people who never-ever game... or never-ever game on a computer. Judging from the folks I know, it'd be the vast majority. Most folks just use their computers to communicate, to budget, to work, and to just dink around on the web. Those are the folks Ubuntu is going after right now.
Gamers are important, sure. It's a userbase that is a bit more knowledgeable and a bit more experimental, which would make them a good fit for Desktop Linux early-adoption. We'd love to have them. But, unfortunately, they are going to be forever tied to whatever's most popular... and, further, they are not the end-all of computing.
We'll be happy to see all you gamers again once we hit... sayyy 25%-50% installed. See ya then. =)
Tautologies, they are what they are.
This is exactly why more people don't drop Windows for Linux. Try welcoming them and being patient rather than being a smart-ass and pissing them off from the get-go and the market share for Linux might actually increase. Which is the goal, right?
Perhaps I am wrong. But having used a number of other development environments, I've never seen a better debugger. I can be running a 3 tier application in debug mode, tier one a DLL, tier two a SOAP server, tier three a client Application. I can step through an entire request process setting break points at each tier in the application, heck ( though I have to see it) you can even use Visual Studio to step through stored procedures inside of Microsoft SQL server.
There are some things in VS that annoy me too, but IMHO, it's the least annoying development environment I've ever used.
That isn't going to attract new users to Linux! Asking them to replace expensive (but well known branded) hardware because it doesn't work. If Linux cost money I wouldn't be trying it. Needing to get new hardware that works for Linux is effectively giving the Operating System a cost.
I know giant strides have been made (and are being made with the recent AMD/ATI announcement); but unfortunately I still seem to have the back luck in the hardware I have
I think you should send your opinion on this to the hardware manufacturer whose product doesn't work for you in Linux. It could be that you will not get an answer from them, but if noone complains about this to them, they might not even start to consider fixing the situation
On a more serious side, they're not on par with VS2005 C++ IDE, either. The only other editor that I know of which can properly parse moderately complicated C++ templates (i.e. Boost) is SlickEdit, but nothing in the Linux land comes close to VS2005 for C++ debugging.
I posted it because I noted the majority of my peers were using Azureus while downloading the new iso. Obviously, people were just not aware there are robust alternatives, because not many people choose Azureus if given a native alternative that works.
Huh, interesting. So you think the only reason people use Azureus is because they're not aware that alternatives exist? Weird. Did it ever occur to you that maybe I like Azureus?
Aside from having a nice interface whose speed doesn't bother me at all because I've got a nice computer, I also like the remote Swing and HTML interfaces, built-in tracker (with SSL), auto-speed plugins, advanced seeding rules, and the fact that the interface works the same way on my Windows, Linux, and OS X boxes. (yes, I have computers running all three, and yes, I've used all of them for downloading torrents) How many other torrent programs do that? And do they do it well enough that I'd want to bother learning a new interface?
Can't you just mount the image and save yourself the trouble of burning a CD? (Serious question.)
The man put up his own millions, fought to bring computer technology to the third world, and will mail you a free copy of the Ubuntu CD if you ask.
Yeah, talk about shortcomings and areas where it doesn't work, etc., but for crying out loud! It might be wise to treat it in a tone of constructive criticism rather than bitter complaint. A little respect is due here. Heck, a lot of respect is due here!
And sheesh, I'm not even a regular Linux user. (Not until the Gimp does more than 8 bits and builds a better layout and includes CMYK. And changes its creepy name.)
-FL
Your statement wouldn't be true, even if C++ debugging was reduced to graphical step by step C++ debugging.
The only case in which any Visual Studio is better than a FOSS IDE is when you're programming only for a Windows platform.