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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leos
Member since:
2005-09-21

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.

Well SuSe has had Yast for ages, which contains a module to configure X graphically. If they would have just taken that and customized it (Yast is GPL), then they would have had this functionality ages ago. But no, the NIH syndrome is strong and everything must be written from scratch. Hooray.

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thebluesgnr Member since:
2005-11-14

FYI Ubuntu also didn't write the tool they're using, so it's funny to hear you accuse them of NIH syndrome. ;)

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t4inted Member since:
2006-11-24

Actually they considered just this. But because Xorg was to get hotplug support for monitors they didn't want to "waste" the resources (to port it).

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superstoned Member since:
2005-07-07

And Kubuntu had an X config tool for ages, so it's just that the Ubuntu guys wanted something GTK, I guess.

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SEJeff Member since:
2005-11-05

Funny you say this. displayconfig-gtk actually uses guidance as a backend. FYI: guidance is what the "Kubuntu X config tool" is based on. Check it out:
http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/

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nelvana2005 Member since:
2005-07-29

Yes, and sax and sax2 did and do their job even if your X environment has been completely "destroyed", e.g. as the horrible result of a X security update. :-)

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