Ubuntu 7.04 Review
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 14:39.
Ubuntu Linux continues to show steady improvement with version 7.04, but there's still room for improvement. Despite the handful of shortcomings in 7.04, this is the best release Ubuntu's yet had. If they didn't before, commercial GNU/Linux vendors should now feel quite threatened by Ubuntu Linux.
What's new in version 7.04
There are very few major new features in 7.04. That could actually a good thing; perhaps the primary development focus was to make small improvements to the existing software. Here are the new release highlights:
* A Windows settings migration tool: A new part of the Ubuntu installer is supposed to find the Internet Explorer bookmarks, Firefox favorites, desktop wallpaper, AOL IM and Yahoo IM contacts from an existing Windows instance and import them into Ubuntu.
* Multimedia codec wizard: A utility that automatically installs proprietary multimedia codecs.
* Avahi network tool: This new feature allows users to automatically discover and join a wireless network to share files and printers.
* Restricted Driver Manager: A program that makes it easy to detect the need for proprietary hardware drivers, and load them at the user's request.
* Core updates: Linux kernel version 2.6.20, X.org 7.2, and GNOME 2.18
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Ubuntu Live CD on 64 bit Systems with ATI Cards
As with most reviews the reviewer picks on things that are personal Axes to Grind. As a SuSE 10.2 user in uClinux development I know a little about drivers and what works. All my ATI cards including Rage 128 (Expert 2000) Radeon Mobility M7, X200 in HP L2005CL Turion (Go Lance) and X300 in Micron Clientpro 585 EMT64 work with Kunbuntu - 64 Live CD and did not hang. (I would be impressed if some reviewers said on this particular configuration they hung and giving the same precision to the test configuration description as TomsHardware.com.)
It would be nice if the NDIS wrapper was exposed as I hear it is for PCLOS2007 for my Broadcom 43XX HP and the live CD allowed me to read the driver off the NTFS partition. But Texstar invented Live CD's so next time.....
IMHO the reviewers should certainly be part of the Beta of the projects and submit the HW configuration and comments. I do for most of my Care abouts. The Ububutu configuration extraction tool and bug tool were very good for this. So is Bugzilla and round trip error reporting for Firefox (and I got my page of mixed sourcecode and paragraphs from Linux Journal as part of their testing).
You want good tools.....Help test them early.
Cheers John
Vista-Windows Me II