Ubuntu 7.10

Ubuntu 7.10 is available today. I’ve been running the betas for a few weeks now with just a few issues but I update frequently and things have been really smooth lately.

If you haven’t tried Ubuntu yet give it a shot! I’ve been using Ubuntu now for more than a year now and could never go back to Windows. I would switch at work as well but I’m stuck with running Powerbuilder though I could probably get by with a VM install for that.

Gutsy Gibbon is certainly easier to install and set up than Windows Vista, and it’s very close to matching Mac OS X when it comes to making things “just work” out of the box. Wi-Fi, printing, my digital camera and even my iPod all worked immediately after installation — no drivers or other software required. ~Wired

No Microsoft headaches and no Apple ‘upgrade fee’ every year or so… it’s free!

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This entry was written by Jim, posted on October 18, 2007 at 8:44 am.

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7 Comments

  1. Critter
    Posted October 18, 2007 at 10:34 am | Permalink

    I was trying to grab it already this morning, but every link led to a 404… guess I was too hasty :)

  2. James Marshall
    Posted October 19, 2007 at 5:05 am | Permalink

    I’ve left mine updating when I came to work this morning! It failed overnight, but I followed the advice found here:
    http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/20.....r-upgrade/

  3. Jim
    Posted October 19, 2007 at 2:45 pm | Permalink

    Good luck! I want to download it and install it on the kids computer but I’ll wait a bit til the newness wears off :)

    I saw some figures on the torrent bandwidth being used yesterday on the Ubuntu forums…

    So far I only have one or two odd issues with Compiz which I haven’t bothered to look into much - not sure if I’m going to keep using that or uninstall it - it doesn’t do much for me productivity wise.

  4. Jesse Z
    Posted October 19, 2007 at 11:57 pm | Permalink

    Ive been running Ubuntu for many years with excelent success 7.10 is just as stable from what i can see with a couple nice addons. The only issue ive been having is trying to install coldfusion under gutsy.I tried the fix that worked w/ ubuntu 7.04 , this however did not change anything , I am still not able to install . Any input would be greatly appreciated.

    ~$ cat Coldfusion-8-lin.bin | sed “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” > /tmp/coldfusion.bin
    ~$ sudo sh /tmp/coldfusion.bin

    Launching installer…

    exec: 2481: /tmp/install.dir.8037/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: not found

    I am running

    java version “1.6.0_03″
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode)

    2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x
    86_64 GNU/Linux

  5. Jim
    Posted October 20, 2007 at 9:07 am | Permalink

    Hmm. I haven’t tried cranking up CF8 since I’ve upgraded. Will try that tonight and let you know if it works or not. I installed it under 7.04 with no issues. I’ll also check and see what flavor of Java I’m running.

  6. Critter
    Posted October 20, 2007 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    Posting this from a fresh install on my laptop.. wh00t! Now to start installing the things I need/want

  7. Jim
    Posted October 20, 2007 at 9:43 am | Permalink

    apt-get install everything :)

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