Ubuntu-8.10 on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/ubuntu-8.10/ Recent content in Ubuntu-8.10 on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:01:01 +0000 Ubuntu 8.10 does away with xorg.conf https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/11/08/ubuntu-810-does-away-with-xorgconf/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:01:01 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/11/08/ubuntu-810-does-away-with-xorgconf/ <p>One of the biggest Ubuntu stories on the net is the elimination of xorg.conf.  They haven&rsquo;t made it unnecessary, they&rsquo;ve completely eliminated it.  If you create one and edit it - it will have no effect.  I have not yet upgrade to 8.10, so I can&rsquo;t verify it, but so far I haven&rsquo;t seen any news to the contrary.  I think this is very much against the spirit of Linux.  I think that people should not have to know that an xorg.conf exists, but I think if you are &ldquo;smart&rdquo; enough to know about it and want to muck about then you should be able to.  Perhaps you want to run your monitor at a non-standard resolution or refresh rate; Or maybe the default settings don&rsquo;t work well.  Ubuntu - let&rsquo;s make xorg.conf available for the tweakers and uncessary for the tyros.  Then we will have the best of both worlds.</p>

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 Ubuntu 8.10 launches today! https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/10/30/ubuntu-810-launches-today/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:00:01 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/10/30/ubuntu-810-launches-today/ <p>Unless something went wrong between when I&rsquo;m writing this post at 2324 on 29 Oct and tomorrow when it&rsquo;s scheduled to launch, Congrats to the Canonical and the Ubuntu Release team on Ubuntu 8.10. The servers will probably be pounded today, so you might want to wait a few days before upgrading. I usually wait about a week anyway to make sure there aren&rsquo;t any show-stopper bugs that somehow made it in. (this saved my bacon 1 or 2 releases ago)</p>

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