Ubuntu 7.10 officially released.
J. Micah Grunert - Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:30pm (PST)
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A.K.A. Gutsy Gibbon.
I had some few months ago made the switch. I had started using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn back in early August. Come early September, I installed a then recent build of Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 and quite enjoyed it. Now that the official build has been released, I'll probably re-install for the heck of it.
Ubuntu is currently the most popular of all Linux distributions (according to its first place ranking on DistroWatch) thanks to its user friendly interface and Debian based core. Some of the new features in Ubuntu 7.10 are . . .
Ubuntu is quite the unique OS. But if you still require a Windows box to run some select few apps (3-D games not included), VMware Server and Vmware Player work exceptionally well with Ubuntu. I'm in fact running WinXP Pro inside Ubuntu right now and it is surprisingly smooth.
And as some may know, Dell has been selling select PC's with Ubuntu pre-installed.
"At its core, Ubuntu is a free platform for delivering open source software, certified and guaranteed to work, and with each release we strive to enhance the experience of our strong and growing user base of over 6 million people," said Canonical Chief Operating Officer Jane Silber in a statement.
In terms of what the future holds for Ubuntu, Gusty Gibbon 7.10 will be supported for the next 18 months. However, their next release of Ubuntu 8.04 (code named Hearty Heron) will have 3 years worth of long term support. Ubuntu also released new versions of Ubuntu Server, Kbuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu today
If you're interested, and I strongly suggest you try it if you've ever been curious about Linux, you can try the Ubuntu site (which is a tad slow right now due to all of the requests going on) or download from DistroWatch through HTTP or the better of Bit Torrent. There's tonnes of sources out there.
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Not a whole lot of people that are used to the Linux platform use Ubuntu, but there are some that still do. It's a great distribution for people who are curious about what makes Linux so great due to the fact that you can burn a LiveCD and run the OS from your CD-ROM drive without having to install the system, thus giving people the option to throw the disc away or give it to someone else if they don't like it. You can even install the system from the LiveCD if you wanted to, which gives people an alternative to the text-based installation of other distributions like Slackware or Debian. I personally started out with Ubuntu earlier this year and quite enjoyed it, but then I tried Debian after getting some experience on Ubuntu and I liked it even more.
All in all, the *Ubuntu distributions are pretty solid as far as a good Linux distribution while still maintaining a very user-friendly experience by including some features that Windows and Mac OS users may find familiar. 7.10 is no exception; I ran the beta on a LiveCD for a few days and I really liked the improvements over 7.04.