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- tehkain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20xserver1.4 is what is being brought in to late for integration. Not xorg7.3
- TheWiseNoob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17This is a major feature that is coming to Gutsy Gibson. I was very disappointed when I thought it wasn't going to be delayed/not implemented.
- mcmlxxii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Good to see X developers moving forward with autodetection, if install doesn't quite get your res right it can be a bit of a dog to fix - ok if you're used to hacking around in xorg.conf but an immediately noticeable and tricky to fix issue for migrators from Windows. Are the days of sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak numbered?
- TheWiseNoob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I meant WAS going to be delayed. I was going to edit the comment, but the Digg comment system sucks and it took more that 5 minutes for the comment to show.
- mikedoth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11If you didn't care, you wouldn't comment.
- gcopenhaver, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10They use a version number format of Y.MM. The 7 is for 2007 and the 10 is for October. Feisty was 7.04 meaning it was released in April 2007. Edgy (6.10) was released back in October 2006, Dapper (6.06) was June 2006, etc...
- Tenoq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Call me a moron but I never knew that. Excellent way to version your software - lets you know exactly how old or new it is and if you've got the latest. :-)
You can digg me down now. - jeff303, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aslew
- myfanwy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5speaking of incorrect:
it's slew, not slue - ZephyrNinety, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Good to see they're making sure it's completely stable I guess. One thing you don't wanna mess around with is your resolution and video if it's unstable.
- MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6There are no mainstraim users. There are nerds and there are idiots. That's about it.
The idiots can't even use windows. (no your grandparents can't! don't say they can. you are lying).
The idiots can't use linux. (again, with everything, you need to show them and/or fix it)
So, who are these people that find linux complicated and windows easy? Your parents. They have had 20+ years of expierence with windows. They would be clueless on a mac. They would be clueless on linux. But the complicated ***** of windows has started making sense to them, after all those years.
Shutdown the PC? Why not click -START-. At a certain point, you brain gets so rotten, that actually makes some sort of sense.
Anyways, they are not going to change their OS. Not ever. They won't get Vista, they won't get Linux. It took them 10 years to understand XP. The only way to accomadate them is to duplicate each and every usability bug in windows... - alexweej, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Wrong. People care.
- Megatog615, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Dumbass.
- amrush4th, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5 messing with displays has been a show stopper for me recommending Linux to some people, if this pans out it will be a big step foward.
- LinuxGalore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You dont have to edit xorg.conf in a majority of cases if your video isnt working, just run sudo dpkg-configure xserver-xorg, its a helper app that assists you to setup the xorg.conf file.
- phinn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They are saying October. Which makes sense as Ubuntu has had a 6 month release cycle for a while
- mmmiiikkkeee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4i care... thus some one cares... thus you are wrong
- andykram, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Yeah kind of like when they took out the new FS from Vista, deprived it of its 64-bit orientation, and changed its focus from being on real improvements to how shiny and animated it could be... That really did a number on my feelings towards Vista.
- srg13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4KDE has this - it's a GTK port of their utility iirc
- igyigyigy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4at the time of posting this, at least 86 people cared.
- kahrn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't know anything about displayconfig-GTK, but I would assume it would run independent of any particular environment (GTK+ is not limited to Gnome, anything can use it as long as it has the correct libs).
For instance, if the display failed (X11 failed to start or whatever) then it might launch some form of failsafe session. Anyone care to explain? - sumguy231, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3According to this here wiki page,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX
Kubuntu was going to launch a failsafe session using displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu will do this) but a limitation in KDM means it will have to be deferred. - daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2May be. There would still be some use for it especially when X can be used over the network.
- Megatog615, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Is there a displayconfig being made for KDE? Or is there already one?
- bsander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Kubuntu already has this in Guidance (system settings).
- tehkain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Official statement http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3223971&postcount=52
- MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You bought a badly support laptop only 3 months ago and didn't make sure the windows laptop supported linux?
Idiot. You can buy linux laptops. You can buy windows-laptops with sane/normal hardware. (intel videochip, intel wireless, is pretty cheap and will work with any OS, hell even a hacked OS-X would run on that hardware).
No, you bought something with, ati or via chips. Maybe even a broadcom. Good luck to you, Sir. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Apparently we get monitor hotplugging/xrandr1.2 in Gutsy but not input hotplugging.
I think that to solve the problems of all the Linux people doing talks at conferences who can't get their laptop to add the digital projector. - tehkain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3223971&postcount=52
- howea, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3So when is Gutsy Gibbon going to be released?
- Megatog615, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1At least it's being adopted by more than sysadmins now :).
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Woke up on the wrong side of Internet Explorer, have we?
- extant59, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sweet.. now if only the wireless on my 3 month old laptop would work better... and the audio jack... i'd never use windows :)
- ha1f, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4cool. ive been trying to get displayconfig-gtk going on freebsd but im missing some dist module. i actually want to play around with it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So which is it?
- sint4x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There is no cost for gaining knowledge here
- sirhomer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 = October 19th of 2007
Unnamed 8.04 = April 19th of 2008
Unnamed 8.10 = October 19th of 2008
six month release cycle, designed to always ensure a new version of Gnome (desktop environment), Xorg (windowing system), and OpenOffice (office suite), which also have six month release cycles - MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The guidance backend is what they are using for gtk-displayconfig, actually.
Which is a good thing, to have stuff that can mess up your system the same on both desktop-environments. - muszek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1they've always had a 6 months release cycle. only deviation was Dapper (6.06), which was 2 months late. Breezy was out 4 months later in order to go back to regular release dates (april and october are good, because they're a few weeks after gnome releases).
- masskurec, on 03/04/2009, -0/+0what about the butsy edition
http://xptweak.net - crossers, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0great, thanks!
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Nothing like it.
- roguetrick, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Get off the internet, dummy.
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0How ten years? XP's only six (as of mid-September)!
By the way, haven't you read any of the "My Grandma loves Ubuntu" articles? - cloudcity, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Awesome, this will help my grandparents immensely.
Sorry, but Ubuntu needs to get these details right before it will be adopted in the mainstream beyond technically savvy users. However, it's getting awful close! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+7If xorg 7.3 is being delayed I don't see why ubuntu should ship it.
Bleeding edge software, right, but at least STABLE releases of bleeding edge software, like always have been. - frederoil, on 10/10/2007, -27/+3No one cares.
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