[CoLoCo] I was feeling a little gutsy last night and....

Jim Hutchinson jim at ubuntu-rocks.org
Tue Sep 18 15:44:21 BST 2007


I installed gutsy a few weeks ago and the restricted driver manager was
totally borking graphics. I also saw some traffic on updates borking
systems. Does anyone know if these have been resolved? Is it safe to run
updates?

Thanks,
Jim

On 9/18/07, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
>
> Gutsy has really started to stabilize in the past few days.  There were
> several annoying bugs, the type you expect in any beta, that caused odd
> behaviors.  But tons of updates over the past week or so have done allot
> to stabilize everything.
>
> I have not seen it mentioned, so I will mention one other feature of
> gutsy that is fantastic:  Firefox plugins in the repositories.  When you
> click on Tools->Add-ons you get the plugin manager.  Notice a second
> link at the bottom next to the get new addons link: Get Ubuntu Addons.
> This will install the plugins from the Ubuntu repositories instead of
> from the Firefox website.  While only a few of the plugins are
> available, any plugins installed this way will be available to all users
> of the system, and will update automatically as any Ubuntu package
> would.
>
> Nice feature!
>
> Kevin Fries
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 06:02 -0600, phillip tribble wrote:
> > I was feeling a little gutsy last night and installed tribe 5. It was
> > neat because the installer had compiz on by default also. I did all
> > the updates and restricted-driver-manger finally worked. The OS has a
> > nice polish. They added new features that will almost make automatix
> > not really useful. The ease of flash and java is a must and they got
> > it! All they need now is to make it easy for dvdcss and w32codecs . I
> > believe it is safe running installing the tribe 5 release
> > dist-upgrades will keep you up2date.
>
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