Comments on: Gobuntu

By: Rexzooly

Rexzooly — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:46 +0000

Gobuntu seems to be a good idea but like its said its new
maybe things need to change but look at 7.10 before
it was final to the public.

I wil install Gobuntu when all these things/problems have been removed but saying that firefox is still a free to use software so people should still have the option to use this
as end of the day its free so ya its brandard to FireFox
but hey they do a good job with there browser so give them that.

And saying that no matter that OS i end up using i always seem to convert back to FF so i will wait till the bugs are clean and the programs have been changed see what the future bings on this one.

By: sil

sil — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:34:47 +0000

aquarius@giles:~/Projects/make-dvd-slideshow$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 
# deb cdrom:[Gobuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016)]/ gutsy main

# deb cdrom:[Gobuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016)]/ gutsy main
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

By: virtualx

virtualx — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:39:41 +0000

What does your apt sources.lst look like? I’d like to try a direct upgrade from gnewsense.

thanks.

By: sil

sil — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:36:48 +0000

Matt: laptop, which I use most of the time, runs Gobuntu gutsy. Desktop is running Ubuntu feisty. My daughter’s machine is Xubuntu feisty. My wife’s machine is Windows XP. The Mac Mini that’s plugged into the telly runs Ubuntu gutsy.

By: Rogue Gunner

Rogue Gunner — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:50:53 +0000

Its all dutch to me I guess thats why Im not in the top 100 Blogs.

By: Matt Lee

Matt Lee — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:12:22 +0000

Do you have a gobuntu splash screen? I’ve gone from Feisty to Gutsy to (I think) Gobuntu, but I’m not sure.

Are you running this on your laptop, or on your desktop? Maybe you need to post an update of all your machines and what they run.

I agree on gNS being out of date. I am seriously considering formatting my machine and installing gobuntu now.

By: sil

sil — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:36:59 +0000

Matt: nope. There were two reasons why (see the original post for details). The first was that there wasn’t an upgrade path, and the second was that gNewSense is based on dapper.

I said somewhere (I thought it was here or in the LugRadio forums, but I can’t find it) that if there’s no upgrade path to gobuntu then I’ll install it but I’ll be annoyed. There was no upgrade path, and I am annoyed, hence the second complaint in the post above.

By: Matt Lee

Matt Lee — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:15:23 +0000

Interesting that you did a clean install.

Wasn’t this the very reason you didn’t install gNewSense?

By: ReinoutS

ReinoutS — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:37:30 +0000

Epiphany is much better integrated into the GNOME desktop than Firefox/Iceweasel is, it’s a shame Ubuntu doesn’t follow Gobuntu’s lead yet! :)

By: Timo Jyrinki

Timo Jyrinki — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:42:56 +0000

To me it seems Gobuntu has lacked resources and is thus only in the very beginning. The reason it’s hard to find Gobuntu-specific stuff, upgrade path info or anything is that Ubuntu == Gobuntu for the most part.

You can achieve “Gobuntu” via normal Ubuntu by deselecting “restricted” and “multiverse” repositories in System -> Administration -> Software Sources, and removing the packages that then are shown as local or obsolete in Synaptic.

I think the most important aspect of Gobuntu will be to actually keep Ubuntu’s main and universe repositories “clean”, a situation which has not been completely achieved yet (eg. kernel sources, and some firmware blobs are in main via linux-ubuntu-modules-*).