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What's the latest Linux OS to download? Im starting to like Ubuntu but think i may have an old version or something aint right. I can't use Visual Effects, it says it can not be loaded, but doesnt say why. I cant edit my logon screen, it just hangs after i try to authenticate it...

any ideas?
 
.Kencs said:
What's the latest Linux OS to download? Im starting to like Ubuntu but think i may have an old version or something aint right. I can't use Visual Effects, it says it can not be loaded, but doesnt say why. I cant edit my logon screen, it just hangs after i try to authenticate it...

any ideas?
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The latest version of Ubuntu is 9.10 KARMIC

EDIT can you type "uname -a" in a terminal and post the output here please?
 
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I think Fedora 12 is the 'newest' release... i don't get what you're asking though? Age isn't that important in the general scale of things - how about you tell us what you want from it and we'll suggest things you might like?
 
There isn't really any such thing as the "latest" linux, unless you are talking about the latest stable linux kernel (which is 2.6.32.3, and for the average user most changes with each increment are invisible | see here for more: http://kernelnewbies.org/). When we say 'linux' we tend to refer to a collection of loosely grouped together open source projects such as the GNU projects and the countless others outside of GNU that might not even originate from the linux community (e.g. BSD community projects are often ported to linux).

That said, if you really want the "latest" linux you will want to go with a rolling release distro, such as Arch (binaries provided via package system) or Gentoo (compiling compiling compiling), or others (don't know any others off-hand). What you get is relatively quick and sometimes almost instant updates of stable or stable development versions of software. The downside of these distros is that they tend to be much more hands-on (but very customizable), and although testing is done for some more important packages (e.g. the linux kernel) there are no quality assurance guarantees that you will find iin something like SUSE, fedora, or ubuntu.
 
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Mint is fantastic, it's like a 'polished' Ubuntu. There's no reason it would be doing that, if so then the problem will be traced back to Ubuntu (or even Debian) because the changed made in a Mint release are largely cosmetical. It's basically a (several) new Gnome themes, a new menu, a larger repo and a better software manager on top of Ubuntu.
 
Ubuntu seems to do somethings in non-standard ways still. After trying a lot of other distro's ubuntu just seems weird sometimes.

I would try Debian itself, sidux, fedora or maybe opensuse.
 
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