Ubuntu 7.10?

gumbald · 6 Oct 2007 at 12:07

SiriusB said:
Mouse gestures for me are usually quicker than pressing a button on the side of my mouse.

Me too

I upgraded my 7.04 to the 7.10 beta last night and had headaches, mainly due to my mega-customised xorg.conf which I had previously working with dual-screen Beryl. It seems not happy with something else, so I'm going to download the RC when it's out and do a fresh install to see how simple it really claims to be these days!

NicNac · 6 Oct 2007 at 13:04

SiriusB said:
Mouse gestures

Of course it would even better to not use the mouse at all and just use the terminal

SiriusB · 6 Oct 2007 at 14:57

If you can control Firefox with the Terminal, i'd love to see it

shiver · 6 Oct 2007 at 17:19

Downloaded and tried ubuntu gutsy beta yesterday but it kept giving an error on installing. I'll just have to wait until the final release I guess.

It did however prompt me into install feisty again afresh and I've got Compiz Fusion working again

@SiriusB : I found this command helped to fix the titlebars problem:

Code:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24

Provided you have a nvidia card of course

Vimes · 6 Oct 2007 at 17:53

Does the Kubuntu flavour (7.10 beta) have the Compiz installed already, as I prefer the KDE desktop to Gnome....?

Rainmaker · 8 Oct 2007 at 08:11

Since I wiped Ubuntu 7.04 from my machine (recurring segmentation faults) and did a clean install of F7, I haven't looked back. I did try Tribe 2 of 7.10 but at that time it was pretty much 7.04 with a new name. Will be interesting to take a look when it goes final, but tbh I'm much more interested in scoping out OpenSUSE 10.3

NicNac · 8 Oct 2007 at 23:31

SiriusB said:
If you can control Firefox with the Terminal, i'd love to see it

Ok here goes:

firefox http://www.google.co.uk

Try that you can use your keyboards arrow keys to move about a webpage

Rich43 · 13 Oct 2007 at 20:35

I'm using it, Its amazing. It seems to be a vista killer with the compiz (3d desktop) turned on by default (if you have the 3d drivers in which are easily installed with a small built in app). Theres a bunch more improvements including more drivers and some other things.

I can't bring myself to boot into windows anymore, I am hooked.

SiriusB · 13 Oct 2007 at 23:17

The only thing I use Windows for these days is stability testing for my overclocks and gaming. I haven't done any gaming for months and I only overclock when I get new kit.

Sp!ke · 14 Oct 2007 at 09:59

Being a complete n00b with linux I'm sticking with 7.04 for the time being (now I've got it running exactly how I want it

) I'll probably wait for Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) before I upgrade, by then I should have got the hang of linux more or less.

Oh, it's now almost six weeks since I've booted Windows \o/

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sidethink · 14 Oct 2007 at 11:16

While still dabbling with Linux I've switched to Mint as it suits my laptop well and is even easier to get moving with than Ubuntu, in my opinion.

GarethDW · 14 Oct 2007 at 11:44

Sp!ke said:
Oh, it's now almost six weeks since I've booted Windows \o/

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Nice

My missus and my love for gaming means I have to keep a Windows install on this box.

gumbald · 14 Oct 2007 at 14:41

Installed the RC yesterday, everything went fine and compiz now works properly. They've not put the cube in though! Still won't detect my dual screens, that's something I'm going to have to work on it would seem.

Cuchulain · 14 Oct 2007 at 14:46

I'm on feisty fawn atm, I had some trouble setting up my Belkin PCMCIA wireless card but found an application that'll install it all for you.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/16/1436371/bcm43xx-0.3.2-offline.tar.gz

It's only for Broadcom 43XX chipsets though.

SiriusB · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:47

gumbald said:
Installed the RC yesterday, everything went fine and compiz now works properly. They've not put the cube in though! Still won't detect my dual screens, that's something I'm going to have to work on it would seem.

You should be able to add plugins. You might also need to manually install the compiz config manager.

gumbald · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:55

I'll have a look for it. Getting my other screen working is my priority, it was fine in 7.04, even with Beryl

Sp!ke · 14 Oct 2007 at 17:41

GarethDW said:
Nice My missus and my love for gaming means I have to keep a Windows install on this box.

Luckily I'm not a gamer and the missus is a complete technophobe :cool:

I won't say I haven't been temped to boot XP, especially with the problems I had initially setting up my wifi card (had to use ndiswrapper and then wicd to get wpa to work) I've completely given up for the time being on getting my HTC TyTn clone to sync via usb or IR and Fusesmb is exceedingly cranky (ie works when it feels like it) But overall I am really enjoying Ubuntu (Xubuntu strictly speaking) It's really made computing fun again.

Totally o/t but, am I imagining things but Linux downloads seem around 15-20% faster than XP? Less overheads? Or just not talking to Redmond all the time and slowing thing down

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Rich43 · 15 Oct 2007 at 01:20

7.10 release candidate here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/rc/

Only a few more days now.

riddlermarc · 15 Oct 2007 at 15:27

Sp!ke said:
Totally o/t but, am I imagining things but Linux downloads seem around 15-20% faster than XP? Less overheads? Or just not talking to Redmond all the time and slowing thing down

Odd, I suppose it depends on what you are downloading and/or using a d/l manager? On my Windows 2003 dev server I rarely max out my 20mb cable connection per d/l but if I use a download manager (Star Manager) it will happily max it out. On my CentOS dev server I get the same thing, never manage to get the full 20mb per download.. it could be very well to do with less overhead(s) for Linux than XP on your setup, I'd not be surprised..!

Simian · 16 Oct 2007 at 13:30

2 Days to go!!... Gonna Prep my machine for the weekend!!.. Re-Format my 20Gb slave (its blank at the mo but NTFS) and dual boot (The Wife still likes XP)...