When I built the new machine that meant I had my old main machine to do something with. So I took my old main machine and thought I would stick Ubuntu 8.10 on that and replace my third machine I had that was a dual boot ubuntu / xp machine. Read it here

In conclusion I would like to see the developers for Ubuntu put more work into the basic stuff such as detecting display resolution properly and also working on the audio problems. It’s nice to have fancy 3D effects and the like but if the users throw out the CD before even getting the software installed there won’t be much hope for the users to see any of the other work that went into Ubuntu. The delay problem on shutdown was also something that should have been addressed before Ubuntu 8.10 went live. As for the laptop, I was actually quite impressed that Ubuntu 8.10 picked up most of the hardware on the laptop. Too bad however the M-audio interface wasn’t able to work right; if it had I would have wiped WIN XP off the machine in a heartbeat.