Ubuntu 7.10 Released

**MishY** · #1 October 18th, 2007, 10:52 PM

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710tour

Mr Bean · #2 October 19th, 2007, 03:21 AM

Just downloading it. Gonna give it a whirl on a spare old HD I have lurking in the back of the drawer.

Cheers Mishy

jmtjet · #3 October 19th, 2007, 01:22 PM

Tried to upgrade last night. Not able to, must be the servers are swamped. I'll try again later today.

jmtjet · #4 October 19th, 2007, 09:34 PM

I managed to get the upgrade today. Tried the visual effects thing, I don't think I have a new enough graphics card to run it properly. It was a little jerky, so I went back to the normal setting. Otherwise, alls well.

modmidget · #5 October 21st, 2007, 03:52 PM

I ran the upgrade yesterday and it went very well. The only thing it lost was the WEP encryption key for the wireless nic. It took about 5 minutes to fix that problem. Then I tested my Canon Pixma 2000 printer which didn't work very well with Ubuntu 7.04. The printer works GREAT with 7.10. I printed one picture on glossy photo paper and it's a little grainy but still looks pretty good. So far I'm really happy with the upgrade.

**MishY** · #6 October 22nd, 2007, 11:30 PM

Am hoping to install 7.10 in the next couple of days. The last time I tried beryl I found it to be not very smooth even though I have a pretty fast GFX card (8800 GTS). Will be interesting to see how much better it has become.

Peddy · #7 October 23rd, 2007, 06:41 AM

7.10 does not support Beryl (rather Compiz Fusion, which is essentially the same). But I liked the level of customization available in Beryl. And the Desktop Cube looks better in Beryl.