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Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 10 Oct 2010, 18:30
by viking60
According to the homepage it is perfect
Ubuntu is a solid distro with little risk. Many think it will be the only Linux distro left for the desktop in a few years. Hell - many people do think that today
It is based on kernel 2.6.35, GCC 4.4.4, Xorg 1.9.0 and Gnome 2.32. It has proprietary drivers for ATI; Catalyst 8.7.80 and for Nvidia it comes with 260.19.06.
Re: Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 01:00
by dedanna1029
Wanna know what's funny about that?
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$ uname -a
Linux dedanna.rocks.net 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 29 07:17:20 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/LinuxCode: Select all
$ pacman -Q xorg-server
xorg-server 1.9.0-1(Although I could probably install the 260 driver fairly easily)
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$ pacman -Q gnome-desktop
gnome-desktop 2.32.0-1I now ask you, what is Ubuntu doing that anyone else isn't? This here is without having updated in the last few days (except for the KDE upgrade).
Re: Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 01:16
by viking60
Hmm suprising indeed. Could the answer be they are paying Nvidia?
Re: Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 02:07
by dedanna1029
I really don't know, but more to the point, Arch is even beating them out in some versions of things. I wouldn't be surprised to see the 260 driver come down the pike real soon for Arch - that's the only single thing that's behind Ubuntu. Everything else in Arch is either ahead of, or right at where Ubuntu is. The real test will come in a bit when I update Fedora, and post its versions of these things.
Re: Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 02:39
by dedanna1029
Okay, Fedora appears to be running a bit behind in things:
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$ uname -a
Linux dedanna.rocks.net -->2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 03:33:58 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LinuxCode: Select all
$ yum info xorg-x11-server-common
Installed Packages
Name : xorg-x11-server-common
Arch : i686
-->Version : 1.8.2
Release : 4.fc13
Size : 40 k
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : Xorg server common files
URL : http://www.x.org
License : MIT
Description : Common files shared among all X servers.Code: Select all
yum info xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
Installed Packages
Name : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
Arch : i686
Epoch : 1
-->Version : 256.53
Release : 2.fc13
Size : 9.8 M
Repo : installed
From repo : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
Summary : NVIDIA's proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
License : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Description : This package provides the most recent NVIDIA display driver which allows for
: hardware accelerated rendering with NVIDIA chipsets GeForce6 series and newer.
: GeForce5 and below are NOT supported by this release.
:
: For the full product support list, please consult the release notes
: for driver version 256.53.Code: Select all
$ yum info gcc
Installed Packages
Name : gcc
Arch : i686
-->Version : 4.4.4
Release : 10.fc13
Size : 15 M
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...)
URL : http://gcc.gnu.org
License : GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions
Description : The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.
: You'll need this package in order to compile C code.Interesting - they are on par with Ubuntu's for gcc.
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$ yum info gnome-desktop
Installed Packages
Name : gnome-desktop
Arch : i686
-->Version : 2.30.0
Release : 3.fc13
Size : 3.0 M
Repo : installed
From repo : anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386
Summary : Shared code among gnome-panel, gnome-session, nautilus, etc
URL : http://www.gnome.org
License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Description :
: The gnome-desktop package contains an internal library
: (libgnomedesktop) used to implement some portions of the GNOME
: desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the
: GNOME user environment.IMHO Fedora's being really chicken with Gnome. They need to get on the stick, if they're going to compete at all with Ubuntu. Is it any wonder I spend more time in Arch...
Re: Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 07:12
by viking60
Well I am truly suprised that Ubuntu beat Arch to the Nvidia driver. Arch is normaly the first with everything.
Re: Ubuntu 10.10 is out
Posted: 11 Oct 2010, 14:00
by dedanna1029
Yep. But consider it's the only thing. It may be that it's not stable enough yet for Arch, who knows.