Ubuntu Gutsy Shipped with Known Breaking Bug.
It was with great anticipation that I upgraded from Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy. I can't say enough good things about Ubuntu and the actual upgrade process was impressively seamless.
Unfortunately, there is some bad news, and it's not just ugly fonts. Gutsy breaks suspend on many different laptops (I have a T60) in such a way that you have to choose between having suspend when you close your lid, and having a halfway decent graphics driver. The root problem is a kernel setting in the new kernel that clashes with the ATI driver. You can find the bug here:
[Bug 121653] Re: [gutsy] fglrx breaks over suspend/resume
Since Ubuntu is a fantastic Linux distribution, I was really taken off guard that a known bug was rolled right on out, seemingly because no one wanted to push the release date. In fact, several comments in the bug are saying "whoa guys, this is a big one, maybe we should hold off". I understand that this was a hot potato between a new kernel setting and the restricted ATI driver, but the bottom line is: both my graphics card and suspend worked great in Fiesty and they're broken in Gutsy. The upgrade broke them, and it was known this would happen pre-rollout. I may be speaking out of frustration, but I'm also confused as to why this bug is only "Wishlist" and not "High" or even "Critical".
Lacking time for kernel compiling and a lot of custom work, I'm reverting to Feisty and will wait for the fix on this one.
Update: for one work-around, see http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/2007/10/21/gutsy-suspend-hibernate-workingat-a-cost/
Unfortunately, there is some bad news, and it's not just ugly fonts. Gutsy breaks suspend on many different laptops (I have a T60) in such a way that you have to choose between having suspend when you close your lid, and having a halfway decent graphics driver. The root problem is a kernel setting in the new kernel that clashes with the ATI driver. You can find the bug here:
[Bug 121653] Re: [gutsy] fglrx breaks over suspend/resume
Since Ubuntu is a fantastic Linux distribution, I was really taken off guard that a known bug was rolled right on out, seemingly because no one wanted to push the release date. In fact, several comments in the bug are saying "whoa guys, this is a big one, maybe we should hold off". I understand that this was a hot potato between a new kernel setting and the restricted ATI driver, but the bottom line is: both my graphics card and suspend worked great in Fiesty and they're broken in Gutsy. The upgrade broke them, and it was known this would happen pre-rollout. I may be speaking out of frustration, but I'm also confused as to why this bug is only "Wishlist" and not "High" or even "Critical".
Lacking time for kernel compiling and a lot of custom work, I'm reverting to Feisty and will wait for the fix on this one.
Update: for one work-around, see http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/2007/10/21/gutsy-suspend-hibernate-workingat-a-cost/