Ubuntu 7.10 … nice.
I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 yesterday. I’m pretty impressed with it - particularly with the compiz eye candy. This is the first time I’ve ever had compiz working without it crashing after I reboot 
I do have a couple of issues though - The Azureus BitTorrent client worked flawlessly with Ubuntu 7.04. It immediately crashes upon startup now in 7.10. I have read that manually downloading it and installing it from the Azureus website will remedy the problem - I had installed it from the Ubuntu repositories. In the mean time I have been using Deluge instead, which does the job but is not as feature-rich as Azureus.
My only other big issue with Ubuntu 7.10 is that suspend still does not work for me, just as in 7.04. The laptop will suspend just fine but it is impossible to get it to resume without forcing a hard power off.
Another minor issue is that the built in VNC server STILL does not support clipboard sharing. It is possible to replace this with an alternate version but its a proper pain in the arse.
Nice things:
- WiFi support is really slick now, with painless GUI configuration of WPA2 networks. It also seems to automatically connect to my wireless LAN before I log in, which is nice.
- It now has a fast indexed search engine (Tracker)
- Adding package repositories is now really, really easy and does not require editing of config files
- It detected my laptop’s screen resolution (1280×800) correctly, unlike 7.04.
Michael O'Leary on October 30th, 2007
Deleting the log files will solve you azureus problems. Well it did for me anyway.
Steve on October 30th, 2007
Not for me unfortunately - it would solve the problem until I add a torrent, and then it’d crash again. I worked around it by manually installing Azureus 3 which has been working flawlessly. The version of Azureus in the ubuntu repositories is ancient.
I gave up on Deluge because, well, it really is too basic. It doesn’t give you half as much control over your downloads as clients like Azureus and uTorrent do. If utorrent was available for Linux I’d have it in a flash
First person to suggest using wine gets a slap.
Michael O'Leary on November 5th, 2007
What about using Win………..nevermind
GS Davis on February 2nd, 2008
Since I’m a photographer on the side, I primarily use Mac, but a couple of years ago I bought a corporate lease return Thinkpad with a wiped hard drive.
I wanted to play with Linux. Ubuntu was one of the first ones I tried, and I liked it. My favorite so far, however, has been PCLinuxOS. If I had a newer machine, I think I’d go with SAM Linux or Dreamlinux. Those two seem very Mac like, without the obscenely expensive hardware and components.
Linux is great and getting greater all the time. It’s becoming more mainstream too. Even Google uses their own version of Linux, I think.