Oct 21 2007
Gutsy out, TribalWars fever
Ubuntu Gutsy was released this week, and I have to say that it’s an excellent release. Some nice (and important) things:
- Wireless works immediately on my Dell Inspiron 1501, after enabling it in restricted-drivers. A great change from feisty where I had to mess around with manually installing firmware.
- ATI graphics card support from the beginning. This is something I’m very happy about, seeing as I could never get the ATI (proprietary :\) drivers to work in Feisty. I was pleasantly amazed when I had a working xserver with the drivers in gutsy.
- Desktop effects - beautiful compiz and wobbly windows!
- Tons more.
One thing that I’ve really noticed around this release is the remarkable openness and friendliness of the Ubuntu community. Everyone’s so keen to help others to get involved, and to help further the goals of the project. The great thing is that there are dozens of regions for people to get involved in as a “specialty” (marketing, translations, packaging…), yet everyone as a whole gels together, and you don’t see the massive rifts and flaming that might be commonplace on other projects.
An example of this diverse community is that involvement of some Ubunteros in an online game called “TribalWars“, where the aim is to look after a village of your own and take it to greatness (wiki). Anyway, an Ubuntu tribe has been formed - “UBU”. Join! 