As many of you may have seen by now, Ubuntu 7.10 - a.k.a. the Gutsy Gibbon has been released into the wild.

Riyad Kalla over at the Break It Down Blog has pointed out that there is an xorg.conf GUI control panel coming in Ubuntu 7.10.

For the most part, I feel this is a major step in the right direction. Editing the xorg.conf file by hand is a dangerous task for anyone who doesn’t truly know what they are doing. The behavior of X in the face of a malformed or just generally borked configuration file isn’t always stellar.

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…Gutsy Gibbon.

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Ubuntu 7.04, aka ‘Feisty Fawn’ was released today, and it looks like interest in the new release is once again greater than the last. Ubuntu’s Drupal powered site unfortunately bit-the-big-one for several hours today (or as Mark Shuttleworth was quoted in the linked article, became ‘logjammed’).

Hopefully the loss of liveliness was network related, and not related to some Drupal scalability issue; one may never know :)

Recently, I’ve started to notice a proliferation of companies selling computers (laptops mostly) with Ubuntu preinstalled.

One of the most talked-about (and mature if the word can be used in this case) is System76 who has the dual resume of not only selling Ubuntu-powered laptops, but also selling laptops that are classy looking, and are “reasonable” configurations for the average non-gamer.

Their current Darter offering is a plenty-powerful setup in a very pretty package: