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New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu
ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. "It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a limited number of colors. The failsafe mode also automatically runs Ubuntu's new GTK-based display configuration utility so that users can easily test various display settings and choose a configuration that will work properly with their hardware."
You mean when can _Windows_ expect a unified program installation method. Linux has had package managers for decades, even GUI ones for simpletons.
Once mass adopted, we won't have the satisfaction to know we are running a better OS anymore ;-)
We'll all still have that satisfaction unless we switch to a different OS. What we won't have is that deeply satisfying feeling of smugness, of superiority, although that attitude is more common amongst Mac users than the Linux crowd, I'd say.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Ubuntu makes it hard enough to get to a pure cmd line as it is, now with the failsafe mode...
Ubuntu...Bringing Windows to GNU/Linux...
well, perhaps they aren't interested in "fixing" it because it's a completely subjective area, like the default desktop wallpaper or whether the trash can icon should be round or square.
personally, I'd take Ubuntu's default font rendering over anything else, with OSX being a close second, Windows in a very, very far third place, and on last place, Windows with ClearType activated which isn't just ugly as sin, but headache-inducing too. And I'm not the only one who thinks so, one of my friends once told me that he wanted to install Linux on one of his PCs specifically because fonts looked "so beautiful" on my Linux machine, specially while reading PDFs.
but then again, I wouldn't call any of the MS-created fonts "nice"...
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
Look, I appreciate that you're being friendly and offering help and all but really, do you think typing in /code makes you look cool or something? Cause really, it doesn't. Just reciprocating the friendliness.
I'm going over here and I don't know why!