Star Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Aug 2007 13:22 UTC, submitted by netpython
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 has been released. "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 is the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and this alpha release brings a host of excellent new features."
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dylansmrjones
Member since:
2005-10-02

I don't know which system you are using but there has been graphically configuration programs for X for several years. True, primitive GUI-tools but none-the-less GUI tools.

I'm afraid the nature of GUI-tools will disallow an easy-to-use powerful GUI Config-app for X.org though I hope I'm wrong.

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zizban Member since:
2005-07-06

I think he was reffering to that horrid little ncurses thing. I didn't consider ncurses a GUI but I will say, it got the job done very well.

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wannabe geek Member since:
2006-09-27

Exactly, NCurses is not a GUI, it's called a TUI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_user_interface

Ah, the lovely "dpkg reconfigure xserver-xorg" I remember from Debian. It seemed not-so-bad until I tried the graphical configuration tools that PCLOS got from Mandriva.

And then they already had a GUI tool in Kubuntu. What's up with these devs? Do they think that a poorly integrated, alien-looking GUI tool is worse for newbies than no GUI tools at all?

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msundman Member since:
2005-07-06

> I don't know which system you are using

Ubuntu, of course, which is what this whole news entry is about. And before ubuntu I used debian, which ubuntu is based on.

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dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

Well, that's weird because Gnome has an integrated applet for configuring X.org. Well, at least for graphical resolution. (Like 1600*1200 at 72 Hz - watch out for headaches with such a low frequency!)

Gnome has had such options since v.1.0 (RHL 6.0). That's somewhere around 7-8 years.

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TaterSalad Member since:
2005-07-06

Not many people know of xf86setup. I used it quite a few times back in my slackware 3.1 days. Now a lot of the linux distros made it pretty obsolete but I agree with you, there has been a gui for X setup for many years.

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