Gutsy gibbon

Post by **Patrick** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:20 am

I don't even need a 32 bit version of Firefox anymore. I got flash working in the 64 bit version of Firefox using nspluginwrapper.

Post by **Patrick** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:55 am

Gutsy on AMD64 is pretty damn good:
http://pdavila.homelinux.org:8080/blog/?p=249

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:26 pm

I read your blog and was thinking point of sale(?), but then it hit me what you really meant. Gort jr may run ubuntu.

Vogateer · Post by **Vogateer** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:34 pm

I whined about upgrading, which seems to be a sore spot for many, but I recently installed Gutsy on someone's relatively old laptop (XP was so riddled with malware you couldn't do a thing with it). It only had an 800 MHz Celeron and 384 MB of RAM, but the install process was painless, the desktop works with Compiz out of the box, and the speed isn't that bad. Not snappy, but I say it feels noticably faster then XP once I installed the antivirus, spyware, and firewall programs.

I set it up to dual boot, and I just installed Ubuntu for the Hell of it on there to give her a "Rescue OS" when Windows fails on her, but now I think I'll actually push for her to try it out for a full time desktop. With Compiz, AWN, and the Nodoka theme from Fedora, I think it looks pretty sharp, and Ubuntu should work well for her, with F-Spot and Firefox meeting her major stated needs.

riddlebox · Post by **riddlebox** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:00 pm

Well I have to say that my gutsy upgrades went well, even my mythtv server upgraded perfectly(Pat you dont have to worry). The only problem that I had was on my main laptop, my processor was at full capacity all the time, I could not figure out how to change the CPU Frequency scaling to allow me to set it to the lowest speed, I searched google and asked numerous times on freenode #ubuntu, but no one ever answered. So I downloaded Fedora 7.92 RC 3 I think, and installed it, it works perfectly and I have to say I like the fonts better than ubuntu(usually I dont care about fonts but now seeing nice fonts I care). It seems like the small pitfalls I had against Fedora are now gone. I still like ubuntu and use it on most systems but it seems to be more friendly toward this laptop. Even installing the bc43xx firmware was easy, after the install I saw that it sorta detected my wireless card, so I looked in dmesg and it told me to go to a certain website and download a certain version of the firmware, I did that and installed it, rebooted and back to the goodness!

mowestusa · Post by **mowestusa** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:36 am

riddlebox wrote:So I downloaded Fedora 7.92 RC 3 I think, and installed it, it works perfectly and I have to say I like the fonts better than ubuntu(usually I dont care about fonts but now seeing nice fonts I care). It seems like the small pitfalls I had against Fedora are now gone.

I have moved away from Ubuntu, and have migrated to Fedora 7 and Foresight, on my main systems, and I have to say that I'm very happy with both systems. I also like the look of Fedora, fonts, graphics, and themes, they just seem to have a nice polish to the distro.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:41 am

I finally got around to upgrading to Gutsy on my lappy, and while the upgrade went OK, or better than my desktop upgrade did, it seems to have removed several apps I use all the goddamned time, like, idunno, KMAIL! WTF? Ah well, it is what it is, but even after reinstalling kmail, it wont run, it keeps bombing on an undefined symbol or some other bullshit like that.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:16 am

ok, here's the actual error:

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kmail: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so: undefined symbol: _ZN11KFolderTree13addSizeColumnERK7QStringi

Here's the actual fix I worked out on my own after seeing a bunch of crap fixes:

enable the old kubuntu kde 3.5.8 repo and do a dist upgrade. It installed several new versions of kontact packages, and now kmail works fine.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:20 am

I hate to admit it, but I'm starting to wonder if hellonorman isn't at least partially right.