Submitted by And here’s yet another Ubuntu 8.04 alpha release. “The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Hardy Heron Alpha 6 is the sixth and final alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features.” And screenshots.
“excellent new crap” they should say.
I tried that stuff via Wubi and “Monitor Resolution Settings” applet amazed me. It erased all screen resolutions form xorg.conf exactly like its precedensor “Screens and Graphic” did in 7.10, when I run it just after the installation.
And look – there’s more – when I edited xorg.conf manually (where is that yours “all works perfectly in one click” mantra, my dear Ubuntu fanboiz ?) that dumb piece of s…..t still displayed “unknown monitor” and “50 Hz” when screen resolution, monitor type and refresh rate were set correctly (I still use CRT monitor)
And please dont tell me that it is still alpha, since “Screens and Graphic” in “7.10 final” worked exactly the same way.
All I can tell you is that it worked for me out of the box. I started out with Alpha 4 and have done the disto upgrade route when prompted. Everything I have tried has worked just fine. Now admittedly I do not use it as my main OS so I am not running it 24×7. Even the Firefox 3 beta has run just fine.
I felt your pain also, it’s an absolute joke of a user alienating piece of <insert own profanity here>.
Not only does it screw everything up. When you try to help newbs with their config, it screws you up also
Especially when trying to install EVIL-not nVidia drivers.
Anyway, the best thing I found in the latest versions of Ubuntu is the “Install a command line system”, Install option. Just do that and then apt-get whatever you need from there and all is sweet again
Hopefully and I’m crossing my fingers, this release won’t be another nightmare like Gutsy. What a disappointment that was
Still running 64bit Feisty here with pleasure, though it’s starting to show its age.
I agree that the settings and display applet is crap and always has been. I was under the impression that the display applet from hardy was a completely different app though. i.e. it used xrandr to do its adjustments rather than mucking w/ xour.conf. In Hardy xorg.conf can be mostly empty except for nvidia/ATI configuration assuming your monitor is recognized.
http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p…
the default theme is simply HORRIBLE!
It does look like Jackson Pollack had a bad lunch, doesn’t it?
The biggest problem keeping some friends of me away from Ubuntu are the sound problems… THis should be fixed with pulseaudio, but it’s alpha 6 and the volume controls are STILL not integrated? I sometimes wonder about the priorities of the developers…
It booted on a MacBook Pro, however:
* Mouse movement was dull but too sensitive to clicks, often clicking when I didn’t want it to
* No wireless detected, any way to force it?
* Still too fiddly. The search isn’t anywhere as quick to access and use as Spotlight
* Couldn’t enable desktop effects. Assumedly has to do with me being on an ATI card.
* Mounted the Mac HFS+ drive fine, nice!
* Startup and shutdown are clunky and too Windows-like. Mac startup/shutdown should be ripped off post-haste.
I suspect that the Mac isn’t the best for supported hardware, and that a better experience could be had on a preloaded Dell.
The stable madwifi version does not support mac book pro card, you will have to use the svn version
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In my experience, Ubuntu is a wonderful distro: everything Just Works ™. I look forward to every new release because the User Experience continues to improve with every release.
I just wish they’d come up with a theme that didn’t make my eyeballs bleed.
Yeaaaa. IrDA port included. Just plug it into USB port and click “ok”. Azureus client works also rock-solid. Not to mention offline repositories on DVD do not making any glitch with Synaptic. And you never have to run nvidia-settings twice – first as root for xorg.conf-related settings and second time as normal user for nvidia-settings-rc -related settings. And you (and of course – your Gramma) never had to use Terminal for anything.