Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Released

[Hiei]

It was released today. No Xubuntu yet for those of you on older machines, but Ubuntu and Kubuntu are up and running. I'll probably burn a CD and try it out after classes today, but I doubt it'll replace Fedora 7 as my distro right now.

So, anyone else looking at this or a Linux user?

[bluaki]

Uh... I had Ubuntu 7.04 installed, until the trial of Spyware Doctor on WinXP somehow messed up the partition >.>
Meh, I might install this on my virtual machine program.

[JMV]

I had Ubuntu installed on my old laptop, because I didn't want to use Windows.

Right now I'm running OS X, but I have used Ubuntu and I liked it.

[Tsu]

I wish I could understand what every other word you guys are speaking meant.

[Waveburner]

sweet....
uhhh, does this mean I would have to reinstall it unto my system for it to work?

[bluaki]

I wish I could understand what every other word you guys are speaking meant.

Okay, I'll "translate"
Ubuntu: An operating system for a computer, similar thing to Windows XP or Mac
Xubuntu: A variant of Ubuntu with slightly different features
Kubuntu: Yet another variant.
burning a CD: Putting files onto a computer CD disc
Linux: A large community of many operating systems (the kind of thing that Mac or Windows is). Ubuntu is part of this community.
Fedora: A different member of the Linux family.
Gutsy Gibbon: The version codename of the newest version of Ubuntu.
7.10: A version number
OS X: A version of Macintosh
Distro: Short for "distribution", basically it means a member of the Linux family of Operating Systems.
OS: Operating Systems
Virtual machine: A program that pretends that it is a whole different computer contained in a single window.
Spyware Doctor: A spyware scanning program

Not 100% correct, but it's close enough as far as you're concerned.

[Hiei]

Bluaki:

The only major difference between Ubuntu and K/Xbuntu is the default environment and programs. Ubuntu uses GNOME, Kubuntu uses KDE, and GNOME uses XFCE. No real difference except Kubutnu is really buggy, so you're better off installing KDE on top of GNOME or XFCE.

Linux isn't a community of operating systems. Linux is an operating system kernel. The rest of the system is mainly applications that are part of the GNU project. Ubuntu and Fedora are distributions (distros) that compile the software and decide which to release. Fedora is Red Hat based, Ubuntu is Debian based.

The operating system is more accurately called GNU/Linux, but Linux is generally used to refer to the whole system, despite only being a kernel.

[Riosan]

I really only use XP because I'm A. rather stingy on hard drive space, and B. I'm afraid I'll mess something up with both OS when installing another one in addition to Windows.

[bluaki]

Bluaki:

The only major difference between Ubuntu and K/Xbuntu is the default environment and programs. Ubuntu uses GNOME, Kubuntu uses KDE, and GNOME uses XFCE. No real difference except Kubutnu is really buggy, so you're better off installing KDE on top of GNOME or XFCE.

Linux isn't a community of operating systems. Linux is an operating system kernel. The rest of the system is mainly applications that are part of the GNU project. Ubuntu and Fedora are distributions (distros) that compile the software and decide which to release. Fedora is Red Hat based, Ubuntu is Debian based.

The operating system is more accurately called GNU/Linux, but Linux is generally used to refer to the whole system, despite only being a kernel.

Meh, I worded it like that because I doubted that Tsu would know what an operating system kernel is. I said "Not 100% correct, but it's close enough as far as you're concerned." for a reason >_>
I didn't really know the difference between the variants of Ubuntu though...