Review of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon final release - Linux

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I’ve Used Ubuntu for about a year and half now and im even considering leaving windows behind buut as much as id love to do that, windows dose have some things that i use offten like games mostly but other than that ubuntu is the most used for day to day tasks of listening to music ect ect nice review though ive tryed some other distros like PCLinxOS,Mandriva,Slax,Suse,Linspire ect ect probly most of them and found that some of them arnt up to scratch like Mandriva for example getting updates and installing them, dvd drive errors amongst other things,and i find it to be very bland aswell , countless errors over and over but with ubuntu noo problems what so ever everything works fine may take a bit of searching to get what your looking for in the driver department and what not but other than that ive had no problems using it and im not usually a fan of the command line but ive found it to be quite an enjoyable experiance over the usual graphical window set up but i have to say that dose come in handy when you have to see what the file is and want some visual imput instead of text but yes im rambling on all i can say really is its exalent if it keeps improving the way it is in the near future i shall disown windows alltoghther

by Mr Spandex on Saturday 2nd of February 2008 at 04:26

Hi, I installed Gutsy Gibbon a few weeks ago. At first, I was very impressed, especially at how quickly it installed. I still couldn’t use WiFi, though, but I’m used to that. Then things started to go sour. I first had trouble with the few Wine apps I used. I assumed it was Wine (it wasn’t; it was the graphics driver for my laptop). Then I had a great deal of trouble multimedia. Then, and this was the deal breaker, I could no longer use my DVD drive. I don’t mean just for copy-protected DVDs, I mean for any DVDs. I saw on the Ubuntu forums that I was far from the only one. I had to download an ISO for Ubuntu 7.04 which I will re-install.

The combination of all the flaws was enough to mean that my laptop was no longer a usable machine.

I was burnt enough that I will not be upgrading again before I’ve read all the reviews.

by Mark on Friday 21st of December 2007 at 05:51

I am sorry. I don’t agree.

I use Mandrava and I have used OpenSuse as well and both of these distributions are better.

"Graphical configuration - finally"

This has been in Mandriva and OpenSuse for a while!!!!!!

by pieter on Thursday 6th of December 2007 at 06:34

Hi guys, I’m new to this. I have Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, and it crashes constantly for no apparent reason. It even does that after I open 3-4 windows. Is anybody else experiencing the same? Is there any way to fix that behaviour?

by Paolo on Monday 3rd of December 2007 at 00:44

improve battery by 25%?
what are you talking about.
phoronix shows it to be worse than ubuntu.
just cause in theory it’s better doesn’t mean it is.
also, with compiz and other eye candy, battery life goes down

by on Saturday 17th of November 2007 at 00:32

I installed gutsy 5 times today. (X2-3800,2Gb-Ram,Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA). I definetly feel it buggy. It seems there’s a problem with EOF in some crucial files when i try to install updates, this locks everything. Bad hardware support, this distro can’t detect my onboard geforce 6100, restricted Nvidia drivers work on my PC BUT when i and update and reboot again the distro starts in low graphics mode...!?. My monitor is not detected automatically. My TV card (Pinnacle PCTV rave which i have since 2003) is not detected, I don’t know why but with this two lines in rc.local it starts working:
modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx
modprobe dvb-bt8xx

Flash & Java support is easier to configure.

by Rafa on Tuesday 13th of November 2007 at 17:08

Yes snds24, it’s possible. You must use the alternate CD to install Ubuntu on your PC. There is an option during the installation to choose where to install the GRUB bootloader

by MadMax on Friday 2nd of November 2007 at 07:12

Is there possibilty to install GRUB to root instead MBR?

by snds24 on Friday 2nd of November 2007 at 00:11

Gusty is a great Linux Desktop. I personally favor my Gnome PCLinuxOS with the 2.6.22 Kernel and Compiz Fusion installed but I could certainly make do with Ubuntu Gusty. Here is a different look for Compiz Fusion in Gusty.

http://media.putfile.com/Ubuntu-710-With-Compiz-Fusion

by BobbyC on Thursday 1st of November 2007 at 00:29

Though your review is tongue-in-cheek, i agree with most of your points. I installed Gutsy on my laptop and desktop and both were flawless and needed no further tweaking.

As a person who does lots of printing, the new print installation feature was a blessing. I just plugged my Epson 1290 and R230, and both were instantly recognized and was ready for use in under 30 seconds. No intervention needed, just plugged them in.

I’ve used several Linux distro’s and with Ubuntu Gutsy, i must say my distro-hopping days are over.

by burik on Wednesday 31st of October 2007 at 20:59

Hi!

This dist version makes one big different - I have heard serious Windows users begin to talk about Ubuntu for some reason.. U know alla of a sudden you have a person who never mentions a subject during smalltalk and then one day they do talk about it which makes you wonder how could that be..hmm!
And it not just one, it is several of them (work, buddies etc).
This combined with more people not so impressed by Vista equals better impact of Ubuntu. Me like it alot!

by Per Tuneld on Wednesday 31st of October 2007 at 08:51

I’m a Vista and OpenSuse user and recently installed Ubuntu on a third partition. The splash screen doesn’t come up, so all you see during boot up is a blank screen, wondering the first few times if the thing crashed. Nothing I’ve tried so far has made the splash screen appear either at boot up or shutdown.

The touted graphical interface just didn’t recognize my second monitor, didn’t even realize it was there. After much fiddling I got it to see the second monitor but never got the right resolution for it. Finally had to edit xorg.conf manually. So much for that.

Compiz Fusion is nice but makes my system terribly unstable. And then every 2 out of 3 times the system locks at shutdown. And it also locks up during use from time to time.

Am I awed? Not a chance, and I dare you to call me a liar.

by Roberto on Wednesday 31st of October 2007 at 08:10

Gusty Gibbon is the law!!!!

by Mimer on Wednesday 31st of October 2007 at 07:59

Good constructive criticism of both the article and of Gutsy Gibbon dear nameless person

One question though, why use a bundled desktop search app over Google’s own product when Google have already proven themselves to you with their Windows version of the same product?

Oh, and I was always of the opinion that Google Desktop was primarily for searching and that the other functionality was just the add-on to it. :)

by Adam on Wednesday 31st of October 2007 at 06:19

Reads fine to me, I’ve not experienced any major problems on 7.10 yet? What setup are you running nameless person?

by James on Wednesday 31st of October 2007 at 02:22

You call that a review? What about the instability --laptops locking up instead of suspending. Random crashes while playing 3d games such as "alien arena", etc?

by on Tuesday 30th of October 2007 at 20:49

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