The Importance of Video Settings on Linux    Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 09:47 PM EST Contributed by: sde It's maddening. For someone who is trying make a daily use of what is to be considered a beginner friendly distribution for the first time, most options leave a lot to be desired for the uninitiated. More often than not, new Linux users find that everything works great at first only to discover that setting up something as common as a dual-head monitor configuration requires editing your xorg.conf file. If you are coming from a non-Linux environment, this can be a fairly frightening proposition. What's interesting is that SuSE and RedHat/Fedora Core have long since conquered this issue with GUI utilities. Unfortunately, distributions like Ubuntu (my distribution of choice) are still lagging behind in this area. Now it would be terribly unfair to only put Ubuntu on the spot all by itself. After all, I’m writing this on my notebook which happens to be running Edgy. Therefore, it's important to consider that this same issue can be brought out to the light with regard to other beginner friendly distributions, such as Freespire and Simply Mepis (based on Ubuntu), and even "enterprise ready" Xandros. Read more   [ Views: 1443 ]

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