They've outdone themselves again!

[techieMoe]

But on the other hand (and this is just my opinion) ubuntu is not the only distro to 'just work'. I've just installed mandriva 2008 and it works just as good and as easily as ubuntu, though i do not have wireless internet and any really new hardware so i cannot say if it 'just works' with that.

But thats all just my two cents.

That's true. I keep a copy of Mandriva 2007 around because it lets me quite easily configure my Broadcom wireless card while offline. Ubuntu 7.10 detected it, but it required internet access to configure the drivers... which is a catch-22 since the wireless card is my only way to access the internet on that box.

[oz]

After saying earlier in this thread that I won't fall for the new Ubuntu on this release, I might go ahead and download and play around with the Ubuntu liveCD a bit. Their liveCD is one of the better ones that I've tried.

I just won't install it to the hard drive.

[Oxygen]

After saying earlier in this thread that I won't fall for the new Ubuntu on this release, I might go ahead and download and play around with the Ubuntu liveCD a bit. Their liveCD is one of the better ones that I've tried.

I just won't install it to the hard drive.

Resist... temptation...

It'll be like getting caught masturbating... IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE... IT'S NOT UBUNTU, IT'S KNOPPIX!

Gutsy has been good to be thus far... some reason Kopete crashes when I login to MSN and my USB mouse (which, to be fair, is shite) kept stopping and breaking X... but all is well now (aMSN and PS/2 mouse) all is well...

[smolloy]

I d/loaded and installed 7.10 on my new laptop last night (cos I couldn't get the Fedora7 DVD to boot), and I'm really really impressed.

The wireless card worked out of the box, as did the built-in webcam (which I was expecting to have to fight with). Nvidia drivers weren't installed, but a taskbar icon let me know that, if I wanted to use evil proprietary drivers, I could install them with two clicks. And it really was as easy as that!

After that it was a breeze to install Compiz, Thunderbird, and all the goodies I need.

The one problem I faced was a bug in the alsa module for my sound card, which meant I didn't have sound. I found a fix on their bugzilla that got this working in two minutes. Having the sound not work immediately is a pretty major bug for me, but I can forgive them since it was easy enough to fix.

[daark.child]

I've run 7.10 on a test machine for the last few days and I think its one of their best releases. However, I still don't think Ubuntu deserves the hype because it still missing a lot of features that are already in other distros and frankly, I don't see anything unique in this release that sets them apart from the likes of openSUSE, Mandriva and Fedora.

[Oxygen]

I've run 7.10 on a test machine for the last few days and I think its one of their best releases. However, I still don't think Ubuntu deserves the hype because it still missing a lot of features that are already in other distros and frankly, I don't see anything unique in this release that sets them apart from the likes of openSUSE, Mandriva and Fedora.

Reiterate plzkthx. I don't use Ubuntu and think "Wow... I really wish it had this..."

[carlosponti]

I upgraded my Ubuntu 7.04 desktop to 7.10. it worked real well except at first it came up with "cant fetch repository" but i looked at the repository it was the one for wine. i deselected but didn't delete it and it went through normally.

[oz]

Okay, while I said above that it definitely wouldn't happen, I fell for it again and installed 7.10 to the ol' hard drive.

It does feel much more stable than 7.04 did, at least to me. However, it feels slower than Arch does on my box, even with all the eye-candy turned off. That's okay, though. I'll go ahead and play with it for a few days before returning to Arch.

Oh, and the best thing about it is that the default colors are perfect for the coming of Halloween in a few days!

[oz]

Well, my intentions were good when saying above that I'd stick with it for a few days, but as usual, I couldn't do it!

I'm back to my beloved Arch, already. It's just easier to use, maintain, and look at, in my opinion. Still, I'm very happy that the almighty Ubuntu exists for those that can handle it.

[techieMoe]

Just for fun I booted up Ubuntu 7.10 on my MacBook Pro and my brother's MacBook last night. Here's some things I was surprised (and not so surprised) to find out:

• Wireless worked on my MacBook Pro, did not work on the MacBook. I don't know what chipset my MBP uses, but the MacBook uses Atheros.
• 3D effects worked out of the box on the MacBook (Intel integrated) but not on my MBP (ATI Radeon)
• All my special keys along the F1-F10 worked, including volume up/down, brightness up/down and keyboard backlighting up/down.
• The touchpad worked but two-finger clicks didn't. No right click functionality, since on a MacBook that requires the aforementioned two-finger operation.

So like I said, some surprised me, some didn't. However they've come a long way with this release. One of these days when OS X version whatever becomes too much for my MBP, I might just have to throw on Ubuntu. Maybe by that time they'll have GRUB working on EFI.