Ubuntu 8.04/Xorg
Ubuntu 8.04 is awesome. I’m running a pre-release, the final release is 7 days from now.
Of the changes, the best is Firefox 3, plus the Ubufox extension which is installed by default. Totally different experience than just downloading FF3 onto 7.10.
I really do wish they’d just disable Tracker by default, though. Every Ubuntu user’s first experience now is, “Wow, everything seems nice, except the hard disk has been grinding in the background for 30 minutes, making everything dog-slow”.
Also, it seems like the Xorg guys are trying their best to make dual head support with multiple video cards impossible. I keep seeing all the awesome dual-head randr stuff they show off, but all of that stuff is totally incompatible with “Zaphod” mode setups (vs. dual head via a single video card).
I hear this is gonna change with xrandr 1.3, but I just went ahead and moved over to a single card setup.