How's Gutsy Beta?

**danbuter** · 10-05-2007

Just curious what the people using Gutsy beta think of it. I'm kinda curious if there are lots of last-minute changes going on, or if it is pretty damn "stable" at the moment. I've never had the guts

to run a beta on my computer before, but I figure maybe you guys could give us a sneak-peak. Thanks!

**carlosponti** · 10-05-2007

i run it in a virtual machine and look forward to final release.

**devils casper** · 10-05-2007

I am using Gutsy from day one. Its pretty stable now but you never know. Feisty release was delayed for two days because 3 major bugs were popped up on final update.

**bidi** · 10-05-2007

Originally Posted by devils_casper

I am using Gutsy from day one. Its pretty stable now but you never know.

I don't completely agree with you. I've been using it since Tribe 4, and like all the new additions, but there's still a few bugs that need to be ironed out. For example, right now I can't install cupsys, and for that matter upgrade the system, because the package is broken. This is obviously expected from a beta release but nonetheless undesirable. Since Tribe 5, there has been a lot of package updates, and I expect there to be even more before they get to RC.

I also run Debian Testing on another system, and I have to say it's a lot more stable than this. Again, to be expected as Ubuntu stable is based on Debian unstable, so I can even imagine what Ubuntu unstable is based on (they definitely have some packages from experimental on there, like gnash 0.8.1 which I use).

**tommytabib** · 10-05-2007

I'm running gutsy at the moment as well, but i don't really use it.

One day during the boot process it just stops and i see the loading code on my screen, i have to tell it to continue and start x or it will just stay like that.

So its not completely usable for me just yet, but aside from that it does look good so far. And what have you got to lose by trying it out.

**Vergil83** · 10-06-2007

This is slightly off topic, but anyone want to tell us their view on biggest changes in Gutsy (beside the normal new version of GNOME, kernel, firefox, etc...). Anything to get excited over or just a solid update?

**ImNeat** · 10-06-2007

I'm excited about the new intel graphics driver (version 2.2 I think) it'll have. My new laptop will actually be able to function properly

**Juan Pablo** · 10-06-2007

I haven't been able to use it really, Tribe 3 worked just fine but the rest begin to boot and then they just freeze, no way to get out, no way to get a console and all boot parameters I give don't work at all.

It just doesn't boot

I hope all this is fixed for the final release

**bidi** · 10-07-2007

Originally Posted by Vergil83

This is slightly off topic, but anyone want to tell us their view on biggest changes in Gutsy (beside the normal new version of GNOME, kernel, firefox, etc...). Anything to get excited over or just a solid update?

I think their biggest thing is the new 3D desktop by default if the card supports it. I really can't say much about that since I have an ATI card which is very well supported.

**jenny_89** · 10-09-2007

I was wondering if someone else hates the darn tracker thing. It keeps reading my hard drive all time and uses about 20% of the processor... Is this behavior normal?

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