UBUNTU 7.10
Oct 9th, 2007 by Don Ray
You may have noticed, at the bottom of the right sidebar, a countdown to the official release of UBUNTU 7.10. The 7 indicates the year of release and the 10 reflects the month.
Yesterday, while I was waiting for my web host to return service to Chiriquí Chatter, I migrated my backup Linux PC to 7.10. It couldn’t have been easier. I followed a few simple clicks, according to the instructions on the UBUNTU website, and after about three hours of downloading and installation, 7.10 was up and running. It took a little longer than was really necessary, because I installed the KDE desktop on this PC as well as Gnome.
I have installed production versions of Windows, that haven’t gone on as easily as this and it has come up very stable. I am quite surprised and impressed. I can tell that this release is going to be a good release. The list of improvements is too long to go into. A couple of things that will be better is FireFox coming with flash installed. When the system came up, it tasked if I wanted to install external Nvidia drivers. It also comes with Open Office 2.3.
I will keep playing around with it on this PC and let the initial release settle down some before I install it on my primary PC, but from my limited time, since yesterday, I can tell that it is another step forward. Damn, it is good to be divorced from Micro$oft.
This post is coming from the 7.10 system.
Woohoo! The latest beta is rock solid; I take it. I’ll be moving to 7.10 a couple (or so) weeks from now.
Well, I don’t know that I would go far enough to say “Rock Solid”, but it hasn’t done anything bad for me.
There are a lot of changes happening everyday, but they seem to have tested them out well so far.