Gutsy Gibbon up and running

I might be one of the last people to write a review to gutsy gibbon the Ubuntu 7.10.I had it running on my Compaq E733 AU laptop with AMD Athlon 64 bitX2,1 Gigs of Ram and 120 GB HDD and NVedia graphics card.Despite the good support of linux by the Nvedia hardware, I had a hard time bringing up the XServer.

Well after popping in the live cd,it took some time to boot into the command line after 3 failed attempts to bring up the xserver.
You will also be prompted to select a suitable monitor for your system, I tried 2-3 configurations and then selected 1024 option which worked fine.It added the following lines to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Failsafe Monitor"
Vendorname "Compaq"
Modelname "Compaq 1024"

Then I did a restart of the gdm /etc/init.d/gdm restart,in order to restart the Gnome display manager.Once the Live CD is up, you can click on the install icon and follow the steps easily to install Ubuntu on your system.

Now once we boot into our Ubuntu system for the first time after installtion, specially the HP/Compaq Laptops with Nvedia graphics cards, will get an option of installation of device drivers that are restricted through the "Restricted Drivers Manager". This will automatically detect your Nvedia hardware and give an option of installing the propritory device drivers.This will make it download the drivers and installation.

Once this is done you can enjoy all the 3D effects provided by the system.You can do a right click and goto "Change Desktop Background".There you get an option of "Visual Effects".You can activate the default Compiz Fusion by selecting "Extra" inside the visual effects.

Gutsy comes with a default desktop search option and all the software is quite stable.It is fast and breathtaking.Gutsy is just what you need to Install for an great desktop experience with maximum ease.