{"id":971,"date":"2007-04-19T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2007\/04\/19\/ubuntu-linux-704-released\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T18:37:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T23:37:52","slug":"ubuntu-linux-704-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2007\/04\/19\/ubuntu-linux-704-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image970\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ubuntulogo.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu Linux\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 15px;\" \/>Today marked the release of the latest version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu 7.04<\/a> open-source operating system, and even as a long-time Linux user, I&#8217;m impressed.<\/p>\n<p>One of the harder tests many of us like to put a new distro through is simply trying an install on a laptop.  Laptops generally have more specialized and proprietary hardware that&#8217;s not quite as supported outside of the manufacturers as desktop components.  Ubuntu 7.04, I&#8217;m glad to say, passed with flying colors, even detecting my wireless card without issue and allowing me to use all the pretty eyecandy on the integrated intel video chipset.<\/p>\n<p>One really neat aspect of the install CD, available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/getubuntu\">free download<\/a>, is that when you boot from the install disc, it acts as a &#8220;LiveCD&#8221; that allows you to go for a test run of the operating system before anything is installed on your computer.  Once you&#8217;re satisfied that Ubuntu is the way to go, you simply click the &#8220;install now&#8221; icon on the desktop and the process begins.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of other improvements I really like, such as the ability of the system to run &#8220;restricted drivers&#8221;, which are often closed-source software from the manufacturers themselves, right from startup.  This cuts down on the hunt and chase process for hardware drivers that often occurs after a new Linux install.  I also liked the automatic video and audio codec search and install feature that starts as soon as you try and run a video.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, another solid release for the Ubuntu team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marked the release of the latest version of the Ubuntu 7.04 open-source operating system, and even as a long-time Linux user, I&#8217;m impressed. One of the harder tests many of us like to put a new distro through is simply trying an install on a laptop. Laptops generally have more specialized and proprietary hardware &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2007\/04\/19\/ubuntu-linux-704-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}