IAMWW » ubuntu http://iamww.com Personal site of Will Wilkins Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Desktop Release in Two Days http://iamww.com/2007/10/ubuntu-710-linux-desktop-release-in-two-days/ http://iamww.com/2007/10/ubuntu-710-linux-desktop-release-in-two-days/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:04:37 +0000 Will Wilkins http://iamww.com/2007/10/ubuntu-710-linux-desktop-release-in-two-days/ I like to play with Linux on my laptop. There is something more fun about it than Windows! I have downloaded and tried almost every distribution over the past 2 years. To date, Ubuntu has been to only one I have really stuck to using. I also use Ubuntu Server on an old desktop set up as a development LAMP server.

Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux commercial sponsor, is set to release version 7.10 Thursday – 10-18-2007.

Some of my favorite new features:

  • Support for multiple monitors
  • Compiz Fusion integration
  • Full read and write capability for all Windows partitions, including NTFS
  • Better wireless card support

Check out Desktop Linux’s article on a lot of Ubuntu’s new features.

Lifehacker also has a screenshot tour of the new version.

If you don’t want to wait until Thursday to upgrade from Ubuntu 7.04 now, you can upgrade to the latest release cadidate and then update to the final release on Thursday.

Here is a more detailed guide on updating to Ubuntu 7.10.

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The different desktop environment flavors of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu) have also been updated to the 7.04 release.

I have played with Ubunutu with a dual-boot on my laptop. Since I love my iMac, I rarely use Linux or Windows. However, Ubuntu is one of the best distros I have played around with and I went through a phase where I tried them all.

I have only had two issues with Ubuntu.

  1. Getting the BroadComm wireless card to work correctly. – I was able to resolve this fairly quickly with a visit to the excellent Ubuntu forums.
  2. Getting the laptop to support an external LCD’s resolution in a dual-monitor set-up. I didn’t really need this, so I never fixed it.

The community support behind Ubuntu is amazing and the users are extremely loyal to the distrobution.

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