Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Release Candidate now available for download

[dfwjacker]

Any word on what mirrors/torrents will share the ISOs when it's released? I recall last time the main sources were overloaded for a bit.

As with previous releases, I expect that the servers will be crawling on release day. I recommend upgrading early. As long as you don't experience any show stopper bugs when you boot from the Live CD for the current release candidate, there really isn't much of a reason to wait. As soon as you install it, you will be able to install all the latest updates anyway. Keep it updated and by release day you'll be running the final release while everyone else is trying to download it. You can always download the final ISO at your convenience.

 

[looseliam]

I look forward to downloading the final ISO I can't wait to see compiz fusion in action, still I had some 6.something version of Ubuntu and it was missing native ISDN support which was sad since it's my only form of Internet connection and every other linux flavour I've seen has had it native.

My limited understanding of Linux has also kinda prevented me from being able to identify how to get ISDN to work on Ubuntu if anyone knows can you please let me know that would be awsome

When I had ISDN back in the day I used an ISDN router and connected it to my LAN.

Check on ebay. You should be able to get them really cheap now.

 

[SantaCBear]

FYI -- There were 66 updates

Just installed RC to HDD and update had 66 to DL

There were 26 more updates waiting for me when I booted up this morning. Couple of them were fairly large.

The Ubuntu support folks appear to be on the ball!

 

[SantaCBear]

loose, (interesting name)

Torrent will be the way to go about DLing 7.10 on 'release' week. The link will be posted here I'm sure.

 

[SantaCBear]

Is there a way to fix this...?

By default Ubuntu will have two panels (Bars) one on top and one on the bottom across the desktop. I know I can move both to the top or bottom or delete one or both of them.

But I want one bar with all the 'click' buttons on it. Is this possible??

 

[dfwjacker]

Is there a way to fix this...?

By default Ubuntu will have two panels (Bars) one on top and one on the bottom across the desktop. I know I can move both to the top or bottom or delete one or both of them.

But I want one bar with all the 'click' buttons on it. Is this possible??

You mush have known that I just logged in to JUB SantaCBear

Anyway, to answer your question, yes this is very simple to do. for instance, if you want to move your task list to the panel at the top... First place your cursor directly over the leftmost part of the task list (where you can grab it) then right click and uncheck "Lock to panel", then right click in the same place again and select move and move your cursor to the top panel. This will relocate the task list to the top panel and you can slide and lock it wherever your want. The same can be done for your "Trash" and "Show Desktop" applets. Then you can delete the bottom panel.

Alternately you could just delete the bottom panel altogether and then add those applets by right clicking and adding them to the remaining panel.

 

[looseliam]

It's looking really good. I like some of the changes that have been made.

I'm still trying to beat samba into submission, but I haven't found the proper hammer yet =]

It did take a while for me to figure out which packages/libraries I needed to install to compile most of the applications I needed.

But It's all coming back to me. Things are a little different than sunos, that's for sure.

Oh, it did take 3 installs for it to properly install the boot loader. It may have been my machine, I dunno.

 

[SantaCBear]

You mush have known that I just logged in to JUB SantaCBear

Anyway, to answer your question, yes this is very simple to do. for instance, if you want to move your task list to the panel at the top... First place your cursor directly over the leftmost part of the task list (where you can grab it) then right click and uncheck "Lock to panel", then right click in the same place again and select move and move your cursor to the top panel. This will relocate the task list to the top panel and you can slide and lock it wherever your want. The same can be done for your "Trash" and "Show Desktop" applets. Then you can delete the bottom panel.

Alternately you could just delete the bottom panel altogether and then add those applets by right clicking and adding them to the remaining panel.

THANKS!!

 

[dfwjacker]

It's looking really good. I like some of the changes that have been made.

I'm still trying to beat samba into submission, but I haven't found the proper hammer yet =]

It did take a while for me to figure out which packages/libraries I needed to install to compile most of the applications I needed.

But It's all coming back to me. Things are a little different than sunos, that's for sure.

Oh, it did take 3 installs for it to properly install the boot loader. It may have been my machine, I dunno.

If you compile applications from source on ubuntu be sure you install the build-essential package. That covers the basics and saves some time.

Also, I have found that installing auto-apt and using checkinstall makes things a lot easier when compiling/installing applications.

You might want to also look at the autodeb script. Supposedly it's better at avoiding installation of unnecessary dependencies than auto-apt is. Haven't tried it myself. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoDeb

 

[looseliam]

I've heard about the build-essential package, but couldn't find it in the package list.

So I just dug around for what I remember needing years ago and did an apt-get. Most was already installed and up to date, but some weren't, obviously.

I'm not familiar with the auto-apt and checkinstall functions, to be honest. I'll do some digging and see what they're all about.

Ahh, I can smell the MS free days in the future. =]

Oh, one quick question: any app that I can use to import my outlook folders? Otherwise I may have to keep a MS os on the box to switch to for archive purposes.

 

[dfwjacker]

Oh, one quick question: any app that I can use to import my outlook folders? Otherwise I may have to keep a MS os on the box to switch to for archive purposes.

I'm not certain, but I've heard of people installing Thunderbird on their Windows boxes and importing all the folders from outlook, then after booting into Linux using Evolution to import the folders directly from the Thunderbird directories.

 

[looseliam]

Ooo, I have a project for this morning.

Thanks for your help.

 

[dfwjacker]

Just a reminder

By the way looseliam, I've been looking at the autodeb script and have it working like a charm. It takes a few steps to set up, but it's worth it. All I have to do is right click on a source package and select to install it from the context menu. The package is then configured and any packages necessary to compile it are installed, then it's compiled to a deb, and any runtime dependencies are installed along with the deb. All automatically, with a useful GUI.

Seems to work better than just using auto-apt and the usual:
./configure
make
checkinstall

 

[SantaCBear]

"The release candidate is no longer available in order to allow the final release to be transferred to mirrors"