Post Gutsy Hangover

29 Oct 2007
Posted by Harlem

Shownotes

I promise I will only post one more show about Gutsy....Really! This week we had to give our thoughts on our installations of Gutsy and how we like it. As we mentioned in a prior podcast that we were downloading and installing while we were podcasting. Well, this week we would like to give you our first impressions on Gutsy. Meaning, we want to let you in on what we liked and what we didn't like. We, not surprisingly, had a lot to talk about and the podcast is a little long. I think I clocked it at just over one hour. That is a new record for us breaking a previous record of 45 minutes. We cover the whole gamut of things one could cover in release segment from the interface and the login sound file to the writable NTFS drives by default. We also are critical about a few things, notably, why they left out the compiz manager. One last note, i didn't get any new music this week, it is all recycled so there you have it, the next episode in a nutshell. Oh, and one last thing, from the oops I did it again department, I pronounced asterisk incorrectly, should be pronounced asterisk not asterix:) I think Peter blogged about this, too. Oh well, such is life. Lastly, next weeks podcast we are going to have some very special guests, namely Jay Watkins from the "in the trenches" podcast and David Yates from the "lottalinuxlinks" podcast. Looking forward to that one. Here are the links mentioned on the podcast.
 
A weekend with Gutsy
Don't forget our new email addresses harlem@freshubuntu.org and peter@freshubuntu.org

Youtube: 

Listen Now!

MP3: 

Episode 44

Player: 

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialise correctly.

MP3 File: 

freshubuntu102507.mp3

Hosts and Guests: 

Harlem and Peter

File Size: 

32 M

Length: 

67:40 Minutes

 

Ogg File

Ogg Vorbis: 
Hosts and Guests: 

Harlem and Peter

File Size: 

23 M

Length: 

67:40 Minutes

 

Comments

Harlem and Peter, Love the

Harlem and Peter,

Love the podcast. Peter mentioned a problem with his screen resolution. I installed Gutsy as fresh install and after that I had that problem. I was surprised to be able to fix it simply. I went to System Administration Screen and Graphics, when you click on the model it will open up a drop down i chose Generic LCD Panel 1440X900 and set the resolution to the same. It worked immediately.

Peace,

Annoyance | Oct 31st, 2007 at 12:33 pm

I installed Gutsy on a

I installed Gutsy on a Toshiba Tablet R15 laptop and for my surprise the tablet feature on the laptop didn't work with the pen. But the funny thing was Ubuntu 7.04 did work with the pen. Do you guys have any ideas how to get the tablet laptop working fully.

Thanks guys

Andrew Moster | Nov 1st, 2007 at 1:13 pm

i just subscribed to this

i just subscribed to this podcast because I was looking for an Ubuntu-specific podcast, and I think I have found the best one yet.

I wonder if either of you came across this particular problem with Gutsy. I have installed it on my Gateway laptop, and after the first boot, it seemed to work quite well, but I had noticed that on future boots, I would get a black screen after the login is complete. Worse still, this is a random problem, and I never knoew just when it's going to happen.

As I am not very well versed in the ways of the CLI as I used to be (I once owned an Amiga, and I virtually lived there lol), I have decided that right now, unless there is some compelling reason to go from Feisty to Gutsy--like Feisty has been removed from the repositories--I'm staying with Feisty until this problem is solved.

Larry Wilson | Nov 10th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing

Doodee | Feb 1st, 2008 at 12:08 am

Hey, thanks for the comment.

Hey, thanks for the comment. I will make sure I tell Peter about this. I'm sure he will be delighted.

Harlem | Oct 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pm

I just noticed this also and

I just noticed this also and it does happen randomly. I am running it on a laptop and every now and again the screen will go blank after powering on. It's as if there is no power going to the laptop screen. I'll ask if Peter knows how to handle this and probably mention it in a future podcast.

Harlem | Nov 10th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

Screen/Graphics problem laptop issue

To all F.U. listeners:

I also have the strange either A. screen powers off problem 'randomly' or else, B. the battery indicator shows up on my laptop's screen and either way, this really disturbs me! This is all on my Gateway MX6214 laptop running Ubuntu 9.10.

Have any of you found a solution for either of these problems? I suspect it has something to do with the Intel on-board video driver (I have 945GM chipset). All I know is that the Intel driver on Linux (even w/ Ubuntu) has had strange issues.

Thanks and good luck Harlem & Peter on your podcast,

Tom

Tom Anderson | Feb 22nd, 2010 at 7:12 am

Very good post, thanks a

Very good post, thanks a lot.

dido | Jan 11th, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Add image
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <span> <embed>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Images can be added to this post.
  • You may use <swf file="song.mp3"> to display Flash files inline

More information about formatting options