Ubuntu 7.04 Released

[Moop]

Just got 7.04 installed. I added some extra wallpapers one of which was Ubuntu March Calendar.. I don't know if that's an official wallpaper but Ubuntu is a distro after my heart!

[FearFactory]

Originally Posted by BoWevil

I'm not sure what you mean. Is your PC stalled, or are you in command line mode after the stop command? If you can enter command functions, just change directories to where your nVIDIA driver is located, and type
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run (or sudo sh 'whatever the driver version is'). I didn't have to use the init 1 command to successfully run the nVIDIA driver installation program.

I was trying to kill my X server using those commands (init 3, init 1 etc..) on a console. Thanks for your tips but i' m off Kubuntu... i installed SimplyMepis 6.5 and im really liking it.

[Fraoch]

Originally Posted by Cactus

Just got 7.04 installed. I added some extra wallpapers one of which was Ubuntu March Calendar.. I don't know if that's an official wallpaper but Ubuntu is a distro after my heart!

Yeah, I don't know what they're smoking there at Canonical. All their marketing is touchy-feely. You never know what those ethnically-diverse, gender-representative, life-affirming models will do next.

I think they hired everyone from Benetton.

Maybe they're trying to counter the Microsoft "we're so evil" vibe or the Apple "at least we're better than Microsoft" campaign.

[Fraoch]

BTW finally got ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING working in Ubuntu 7.04.

CD burning: check, although GnomeBaker makes coasters? The "native" ISO burner that's invoked when you right-click an ISO works fine. Nicer than Windows actually. In Windows you generally need a complex program to recognize and burn ISOs.

Digital camera import: check, I just plug it in, it recognizes the camera and downloads automatically to a folder.

Scanner: check, my old Canon FB630U works perfectly.

CD ripping: almost a full check, I found a ripper that's almost as good as EAC, Rubyripper. Much better than Soundjuicer and better than Grip in that it makes log files indicating problem areas. Rubyripper can also encode to multiple formats. About the only thing it's missing that I could do in an EAC companion program called MAREO is invoke a command-line operation, where I used MP3Gain. MP3Gain works fine in Linux though.

Music file tagging: EasyTag is almost as good as Mp3tag was in Windows. For things that it misses, Ex Falso. Then there are two more command-line programs, eyeD3 and id3v2 for advanced operations regarding tag types.

DVD audio ripping: a big check on this one. dvd:rip is more elegant than any Windows solution at extracting audio from a DVD because it can do it in one step - no more decoding AC3 files.

DVD playback: very good, and getting screenshots is easy as well.

Sound: fine, no problem. I can play MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WAV and even "Windows only" WMA. What's neat is that the file browser offers a "music preview" - just move your cursor over an MP3 and it starts playing without any additional software. Move it off and it stops.

SlimServer, for music streaming: works better in Linux than it does in Windows. Rescanning my music library is faster, nearly 5000 tracks in about 5 minutes. This is faster than on Windows where I was using much faster hardware.

Video: haven't encountered a format that hasn't worked yet, even WMV.

Printing: my old Epson Stylus Color 660 worked perfectly in Linux years ago. For my new laser Canon MF5770 printer/fax/scanner, see below.

Model railroad CAD: yes, even this - XTrkCAD has been open-sourced and operates fine in Linux.

There are some programs I had been using and become familiar with in Windows that work perfectly and even have the same UI: GIMP, OpenOffice, Firefox (I'm using Swiftfox, custom-compiled for my processor), Thunderbird, Audacity, Google Earth.

One big hurdle that's hardly Ubuntu's fault: my Canon MF5770 is a $400 paperweight. I wasn't looking into Linux support when I bought it and there's no Linux support whatsoever for it. No native Canon-released drivers, no reverse-engineered drivers, no generic drivers, nothing. Canon is very Linux-unfriendly with this one, there are no drivers and there may never be. I asked anyway just to remind them that some people are looking for this and that the issue won't go away if they ignore it. Fortunately I was forward-looking enough that I got the 5770 rather than the 5750 - the difference is a network card that now allows printing from my company Windows laptop through the network.

A minor annoyance is lack of hardware monitoring - fan speeds and the like. This is probably related to the motherboard I'm using though - apparently 7.04 is improved in this respect. I'm not truly interested in fan speeds, what I'm interested in is turning them down when loads/temperatures are low. We'll see if my new mobo fares any better - should the processor ever come in, that is!

I'm using an old, old, old PCI video card because this motherboard doesn't have an AGP port. Unfortunately the highest refresh rate is 60 Hz, so it's flickery. When I get my new motherboard running I can switch to my slightly more advanced video card that hopefully offers higher refresh rates.

But really, everything is working. I'm about to install a program that interfaces to my company Dell Axim X30 that's running Windows Mobile 2003, but even if it doesn't work I can just interface with the data on its SD card. My card reader isn't working but I'm almost certain this is due to the motherboard not being fully USB 2.0 compliant.

I'm fully switched. No need for WINE, dual boot or VM because there's nothing I could do in Windows that I can't do in Ubuntu right now.

[XJ.]

Uhh, ok, I can't figure out how to 'upgrade' my 6.10 to 7.04. Maybe it's because I'm running in a VM (VMware) The package installer launches, but so far I can't seem to find an upgrade guide on the CD (ISO). Any help???

[wallijonn]

Originally Posted by Cactus

J Ubuntu March Calendar...

linky, please.

[wallijonn]

Originally Posted by XJ.

Uhh, ok, I can't figure out how to 'upgrade' my 6.10 to 7.04.

DEFINITELY backup your data before upgrading. Besides the suppositories, um, repositories, you could try just installing over it. But don't be surprised to find that the installer does NOT find accounts to port over. That is what happened to me. Now, how can it port an account over when it is in the midst of partitioning the HD?

[wallijonn]

Originally Posted by Fraoch

Sound: fine, no problem.

What sound card do you have?

[wallijonn]

[quote=BoWevil;1362973]

Originally Posted by FearFactory

I installed Kubuntu 7.04 today and i want to install the Nvidia driver but i have a problem...

Did you first try Installation - Automatix Wiki
?
Software and Tweaks - Automatix Wiki

[XJ.]

Originally Posted by wallijonn

DEFINITELY backup your data before upgrading. Besides the suppositories, um, repositories, you could try just installing over it. But don't be surprised to find that the installer does NOT find accounts to port over. That is what happened to me. Now, how can it port an account over when it is in the midst of partitioning the HD?

Yeah, that's what I ran into - it wants to re-partition the virtual drive

[Fraoch]

Originally Posted by wallijonn

What sound card do you have?

Just using the craptacular onboard sound on this mobo. Ubuntu thinks it's C-Media or SiS SI7012.

I'm not going to be using anything but onboard sound from now on. My critical sound listening is over my home theatre system. Anything on the PC is just reviewing tracks, rudimentary sound editing, simple games, etc. Onboard sound works fine for that. So I'll be selling my M-Audio Revolution at some point.

[JCNiest5]

Is this more like Mandriva 2007? I tried to install Mandriva and it kept partition my HD into a 3GB or around that amount and when I check all the programs I want to install, there isn't enough room to install. I'm downloading Ubuntu 7.04 now and will try how I like it (vs. Mandriva).

[Moop]

Originally Posted by wallijonn

linky, please.

I found ubuntu-calendar by searching for wallpaper in package manager.
Ubuntu -- ubuntu-calendar
The link is to an older version.

[pointreyes]

Whew! Finally I have Eclipse working fast on 7.04. The problem is that you have to use the Sun JDK instead of the GNU. Make sure that Eclipse and Ubuntu default to the Sun JRE and finally Eclipse goes from being a slow snail to a more realistic speed.

[Fraoch]

Originally Posted by pointreyes

Whew! Finally I have Eclipse working fast on 7.04. The problem is that you have to use the Sun JDK instead of the GNU. Make sure that Eclipse and Ubuntu default to the Sun JRE and finally Eclipse goes from being a slow snail to a more realistic speed.

Huh. http://www.eclipse.org/

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.

I know what all those words mean, I just don't know what they mean together.

Is it like shifting the paradigm? Redeploying rediscovered assets?