| Art Alexion on 12 Sep 2007 16:25:14 -0000 |
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On Tuesday 11 September 2007 15:32:38 Eugene Smiley wrote: > For all the hype 5 years ago about "Is Linux ready for the desktop?" I'm > surprised that major pieces are still not ready. I'm resigned to the fact > that it'll only ever be a server for me. I'm not sure anything can handle the 'exotic' automagically. We recently set up a network monitoring system on 4 large LCDs and a mixture of PCI and PCIx video cards -- a Dr. Strangelove "Big Board" for the network. We were using WinXP pro to drive it. Now XP has been in very wide use for over 4 years and the monitors, cards and drivers were designed to work with it. It still took about a week for 2-3 competent IT professionals to get it to work properly on the 4 screens-as-one. That said, X should not break a plain vanilla setup on commonplace onboard video adapters and single stock screens. More importantly, a update so flawed should not be publicly released upstream by X.org, nor by the core Ubuntu team with a flaw affecting so many. It gives Linux and the Open Source model a bad name and hinders wider adoption. Attachment:
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