On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Jim March <
1.jim.march@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
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