Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon - has arrived. Since I can’t refuse the temptation of an upgrade, I took the plunge and downloaded the upgrade. Some one mentioned the torrent download, which will be faster than the server download. Spot on.
Upgrading was a breeze. There was a slight problem with X not starting not, a little sleuthing revealed that my installation was not complete (namely, my kernel was still stuck on “generic”. Finishing the upgrade solved my problems.
Some nice new things. No more beryl (Long live beryl!). Compiz Fusion is now in the official repositories, and for people like me, who are used the control beryl-manager gave, there’s Compiz Config Settings Manager. This post nicely tells how to install Compiz Config, and recommends some good settings for it.
I totally grok the new expo feature. Rotate cube now comes with more than 4 cubes, thanks to the new integration with GNOME default with XGL. Beautiful! This video has all the cool configs to use.
Now, problems. I have a beef with trackerd. It just hogs all memory for some reason. Ubuntu could do better to explain this. Looking around, I found that killing the current trackerd, and then restarting trackerd to reindex everything with ‘trackerd -R’ worked. The memory and swap usage dropped, and what has been running for four days is now completed in two hours! To check, use ‘tracker-status’. After trackerd has finished indexing, it should state:Tracker daemon’s status is Idle.
Other good stuff includes the ability to finally write into NTFS, but I haven’t tried that out yet. More on others later…