Ubuntu 10.10 is out

[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.

[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/Linux

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$ pacman -Q xorg-server
xorg-server 1.9.0-1

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$ pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia 256.53-1

(Although I could probably install the 260 driver fairly easily)

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$ pacman -Q gcc
gcc 4.5.1-1

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$ pacman -Q gnome-desktop
gnome-desktop 2.32.0-1

I 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).

[viking60]

Hmm suprising indeed. Could the answer be they are paying Nvidia?

[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.

[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/Linux

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$ 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.

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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.

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$ 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...

[viking60]

Well I am truly suprised that Ubuntu beat Arch to the Nvidia driver. Arch is normaly the first with everything.

[dedanna1029]

Yep. But consider it's the only thing. It may be that it's not stable enough yet for Arch, who knows.