My take on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 (K/X/Ubuntu)

[Alan Dayley]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Intrepid right now on a Dell laptop with an Intel
> 965/X3100 graphics card, Intel HDA sound, Pentium dual core (basically
> the "low end" dual processor) with 2gigs RAM.
>
> This lappy was bought at Beast Buy on sale for $500 so it's hardly "high end".
>
> There are two things Intrepid is giving me over Hardy:

Nice review, Jim.  Thanks.

> 1) Better dual-monitor support.  System>Preferences>ScreenResolution
> is working *exactly* like it should, period, end of discussion right
> there in the GUI without any funky xrandr command line BS.  I can plug
> in an external monitor, detect it, adjust the resolutions of both and
> the relative layout of an expanded desktop unless I choose mirror
> mode.  It "just works".

OK, this smooth dual support might just be the "killer" reason that I
do upgrade.  Now that I have public stated I'm not going to upgrade.
:^)  Sounds nice compared to the current state of things in 8.04.

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> Note that my Alpha-to-beta install still had glitches once Intrepid
> went gold, and it refused to update to the newest kernel version.  So
> I had to do a clean install with the release edition...this is fairly
> common (and very annoying) about alpha/beta-testing Ubuntu.  A
> Hardy-to-Intrepid update now should be OK.

I'll most likely do the full install path just because I don't have
confidence in distro upgrades.

> Hope this helps,

Very helpful.  Thanks again.

Alan