Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
Live CD and Installation on one 700Mb disk
Version 7.10 is another great advance for the first time in this distro version we have Eye Candy already installed by default. Ok it's subtle and you may not notice at first any changes but it is different, with a better graphics card such as NVidia or ATI sometimes the Eye Candy is even more remarkable.
Distribution Upgrade from version 7.04 to Version 7.10 was good but no better than previous versions although again it took ages it did complete. Again it would have been quicker to opt for a fresh installation.
Applications included:
Openoffice
Gimp
Firefox
Flash and other Plugins
Updates proved again to be very simple and easy to install with only the requirement for a reboot on very rare occasions or when the Kernel image file needed updating.
You have two possible ways to install new software the first and easiest is from the main Applications Menu from Gnome entitled Add/Remove this is a Gnome Application Installer it does not have the full functionality of the Synaptic Package Manager but it is easy to use and will install all that is required. It reliably installs software to a given point on the menu system so no additional menu editing is required.
The second way is to use the Synaptic Package Manager you would use this to install system applications and codecs not normally found in Add/Remove application.
With more website's and Forum sites supporting Ubuntu it was easier to resolve some issues with this release.
Their are now three factions for Eye Candy on Linux systems any one of which with the correct hardware will heighten your Desktop experience all of which are being developed in parallel. Compiz and Beryl started independently and perhaps more or less the same time it has been argued that many of the Compiz developers are the same developers that are working on Beryl and visa versa. However then comes the third faction which is the collaboration of Compiz & Beryl called Compiz-Fusion. There may be more Eye Candy development out there a good place to start is sourceforge.net
For more information on these projects or developments please visit their project sites at the following locations:
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