Its Out!

Joe 90 · 18-10-2007, 12:34

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatI...desktopedition

whoo screw vista ultimate - ubuntu ftw

*maybe i'm too quick - keep getting file not found errors on the kent and oxford mirrors

Daz · 18-10-2007, 12:45

Better grabbing the torrent while the mirrors sort themselves out

Garp · 18-10-2007, 13:08

I'm not liking their insistence on including Comiz / Beryl by default. They're still very much beta products and still buggy IME. For example I can't run Gutsy on my Linux box at home without doing some serious messing about in the Xorg config file due to the integrated NVIDIA graphics card.
It should be more of a conscious choice, which it hasn't been up until now (not tried release version yet)

My server has been upgraded via command line already. Not sure yet whether I'll bother with my PC here at work. Feisty is working fine.

Daz · 18-10-2007, 13:16

I can understand the decision Garp. They're trying to get Joe desktop user onto Ubuntu and those users are only going to compare it to Windows, likely Vista. Having some prettyness will help.

So long as the pre-requisite checks work well I'm fine with the choice personally, though I've yet to test that in action myself.

Do you know if they've moved vmware-server into the gutsy commercial repository yet?

Garp · 18-10-2007, 13:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daz

I can understand the decision Garp. They're trying to get Joe desktop user onto Ubuntu and those users are only going to compare it to Windows, likely Vista. Having some prettyness will help.

So long as the pre-requisite checks work well I'm fine with the choice personally, though I've yet to test that in action myself.

Do you know if they've moved vmware-server into the gutsy commercial repository yet?

There is no gutsy commercial repository yet.. there is a "gutsy" one alongside "feisty-commercial" on canonical's site but all its got in it is opera.

Daz · 18-10-2007, 13:29

I'll leave my server box for a while then. I use the vmware-server packages for convenience. If it takes too long for them to sort out newer versions then I'll probably go back to source but I'll give them time for now

Joe 90 · 18-10-2007, 13:39

don't think torrent's are downloadable from uni...left it sat in opera for a while and it didn't start

i'll have to put up with 170kb/s

Garp · 18-10-2007, 17:02

Maybe a bit late, but my server is getting a great speed from the torrent.. I'm happy to nab the i386 and 64bit iso's and have them available for a few days for BD folks.

LeperousDust · 18-10-2007, 17:09

I'd really like to dual boot between Vista and this, but Vista is already using my whole laptop. I've got a few gigs worth of space left. It would be backwards of me to format and partition just to put Gutsy on unfortunately. And i don't want to trust a partition manager when i could lose so much

. Also even with Gutsy installed on a few gig space i'd have no room to play and i still dont entirely trust linux reading and writing to my exisitng NTFS partitions...

Someday when i reinstall Vista because its bogged down...

Garp · 18-10-2007, 17:12

Right i386 iso is available:

ftp address: bliss.paulgraydon.co.uk
username: ftp
password: e-mail addy.

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18-10-2007, 13:08	#3
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	I'm not liking their insistence on including Comiz / Beryl by default. They're still very much beta products and still buggy IME. For example I can't run Gutsy on my Linux box at home without doing some serious messing about in the Xorg config file due to the integrated NVIDIA graphics card. It should be more of a conscious choice, which it hasn't been up until now (not tried release version yet) My server has been upgraded via command line already. Not sure yet whether I'll bother with my PC here at work. Feisty is working fine. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?

18-10-2007, 13:16	#4
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	I can understand the decision Garp. They're trying to get Joe desktop user onto Ubuntu and those users are only going to compare it to Windows, likely Vista. Having some prettyness will help. So long as the pre-requisite checks work well I'm fine with the choice personally, though I've yet to test that in action myself. Do you know if they've moved vmware-server into the gutsy commercial repository yet? __________________ apt-get moo

18-10-2007, 13:29	#6
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	I'll leave my server box for a while then. I use the vmware-server packages for convenience. If it takes too long for them to sort out newer versions then I'll probably go back to source but I'll give them time for now __________________ apt-get moo

18-10-2007, 13:39	#7
Joe 90 Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chester Posts: 2,345	don't think torrent's are downloadable from uni...left it sat in opera for a while and it didn't start i'll have to put up with 170kb/s __________________ 360 Blog \| Join GiffGaff \| Twitter

18-10-2007, 17:02	#8
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Maybe a bit late, but my server is getting a great speed from the torrent.. I'm happy to nab the i386 and 64bit iso's and have them available for a few days for BD folks. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?

18-10-2007, 17:09	#9
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	I'd really like to dual boot between Vista and this, but Vista is already using my whole laptop. I've got a few gigs worth of space left. It would be backwards of me to format and partition just to put Gutsy on unfortunately. And i don't want to trust a partition manager when i could lose so much . Also even with Gutsy installed on a few gig space i'd have no room to play and i still dont entirely trust linux reading and writing to my exisitng NTFS partitions... Someday when i reinstall Vista because its bogged down... __________________

18-10-2007, 17:12	#10
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Right i386 iso is available: ftp address: bliss.paulgraydon.co.uk username: ftp password: e-mail addy. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?