[CoLoCo] I was feeling a little gutsy last night and....
David Overcash
funnylookinhat at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 16:42:44 BST 2007
Have any of you tried Gutsy Kubuntu (rather than Ubuntu)? Just curious
because I want to test that out as well and am wondering what to expect when
I install it. : )
-David
On 9/18/07, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
>
> I installed gutsy a few weeks ago and the restricted driver manager was
> totally borking graphics. I also saw some traffic on updates borking
> systems. Does anyone know if these have been resolved? Is it safe to run
> updates?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> On 9/18/07, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
> >
> > Gutsy has really started to stabilize in the past few days. There were
> > several annoying bugs, the type you expect in any beta, that caused odd
> > behaviors. But tons of updates over the past week or so have done allot
> >
> > to stabilize everything.
> >
> > I have not seen it mentioned, so I will mention one other feature of
> > gutsy that is fantastic: Firefox plugins in the repositories. When you
> > click on Tools->Add-ons you get the plugin manager. Notice a second
> > link at the bottom next to the get new addons link: Get Ubuntu Addons.
> > This will install the plugins from the Ubuntu repositories instead of
> > from the Firefox website. While only a few of the plugins are
> > available, any plugins installed this way will be available to all users
> >
> > of the system, and will update automatically as any Ubuntu package
> > would.
> >
> > Nice feature!
> >
> > Kevin Fries
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 06:02 -0600, phillip tribble wrote:
> > > I was feeling a little gutsy last night and installed tribe 5. It was
> > > neat because the installer had compiz on by default also. I did all
> > > the updates and restricted-driver-manger finally worked. The OS has a
> > > nice polish. They added new features that will almost make automatix
> > > not really useful. The ease of flash and java is a must and they got
> > > it! All they need now is to make it easy for dvdcss and w32codecs . I
> > > believe it is safe running installing the tribe 5 release
> > > dist-upgrades will keep you up2date.
> >
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