That is what the move toward open source has been called, a movement. A movement is part of a concerto or part of a dance routine, not a move toward a more stable operating system! Granted, "geeks" have been at the fore of the open source initiative as long as it has been happening but open source is so much more than just a "movement".
Software which has been and is still being developed by the community rather than a corporation is open source. When the bugs are found in it, the community fixes them. It is an elegant way of doing things and very efficient, most of the time. I and many others have been trying to get a bug or something fixed in Ubuntu's Intrepid Ibex (8.10) for a few weeks now, with not much success from what I have read on the forums. It seems that the older your hardware is, Ibex can't seem to find the correct solution for the video, whether it is a laptop or some other screen. Before this release, Hardy Heron would not give me a decent resolution for my KDS monitor, but Ibex did. I thought that it wouldn't have any trouble with a laptop which was only four years old, but since it is a Dell 1100 Inspiron it can't even install and use the screen if I use the alternate install CD.
I am waiting for the great community of developers out there to fix this but even if they do it won't make it into the stream until the next release in April of '09. So, I will just have to wait. I am not complaining about this, actually. It is not just Ubuntu, I have tried other distributions and none except Mepis will even install correctly and give me a boot screen to log in to. With the alternate disk, Ubuntu got me to the login but the desktop didn't show up after that. Any ideas?
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