LWN: Comments on "Ubuntu 9.04 released"

Ubuntu 9.04 released

rmano — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:12:58 +0000

No, in this case things are quite different. The bug is there (look at the bug entry), and unfortunately it seems that it is deemed too risky to fix --- giving that a workaround exists, namely, disabling DRI and 3D acceleration.
I am quite apalled by the decision. I will have to stay with the ibex...

Ubuntu 9.04 released

dlang — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:27:52 +0000

for most of the cases that I have worked with helping people through, the easy fix seems to be to remove the /etc/X11/x.org config file and let X autodetect everything.

I've helped a half dozen people through this problem and in every case there was some custom tweaking or other modules getting loaded that caused the problem.

all but one of them were fixed by the trivial remove the x.org file fix, that last one was somehow trying to load other video drivers that were no longer needed, uninstalling those drivers fixed the problem

Ubuntu 9.04 released

rmano — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:12:23 +0000

A would-be nice releases, if only it didn't ship with a nasty your-machine-freezes bug for a great deal of Intel graphic chipset users... sometime the fixed date release cycle has "funny" downturns. Fortunately, Ubuntu *did* mention it on the release notes, so no major harm has been done.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339091

Looking forward to jump to jaunty...

Great release, sub par marketing

kragil — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:44 +0000

It is a great release with a lot of cool new features, but I have one very unlikely complain.

Canonicals marketing is not very good.

When Novell and Red Hat release a new version you find all cool new features on their webpages.

Not so for Canonical, for example Dustin Kirkland did an amazing job with screen profiles, where screen essentially becomes the window manager for the Ubuntu server and it displays interesting infos (like EC2 costs, avail. updates, mem usage etc. etc. etc.)
It is very easy to configure and a real win for every Ubuntu server admin.

No word about it on any of their websites. That is kinda funny, because a lot of people say Canonical is mostly great in the marketing department.