The Life of Matt Campos

Well I have to admit, I am an Ubuntu fanboi. I use it at home, at work and anywhere I can get away with it. I dunno if its the fancy technical titles like “Gutsy Gibbon” or the fact thats its based on Debian, but damn it, I like it. Anyway, I just saw the latest update on Ubuntu’s website that 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” has been release for beta testing. Skimming through the new features I saw a few things I liked. Most notably the following:

NTFS writing

While previous Ubuntu releases only supported read access to Windows (NTFS) partitions, Gutsy Gibbon now fully supports reading and writing to them, by integrating the NTFS-3g project. This significantly eases file and document sharing with Windows.

Additional installation profiles for Ubuntu Server

New pre-configured installation options have been added to the Ubuntu Server CD. Mail Server, File Server, Print Server, and Database Server options join existing LAMP and DNS options for pre-configured installations, easing the deployment of common server configurations.

These are two very handy features I know I will take advantage of. So to the Devs over at Ubuntu, great job! Keep up the good work.

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