Archive for July 2008

Intrepid Sprint (London)

The great thing about the Ubuntu distro team development sprints is that you get to sit around a table and share your knowledge about workarounds for all of the broken things in the current release:

  • To get the machine to resume from suspend, boot an older kernel
  • To get X to start, disable usplash
  • To get a useful desktop, wait for the white screen, press Alt+F2 and type “metacity --replace

GUADEC Hacking