Apple seeks to trademark “startup” in Australia

Re:Apple seeks to trademark “startup” in Australia by eropple on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @02:51AM (#6288379)

IME, Linux has a long way to go for non-dual-head setups. I have four monitors with different geometries on two graphics cards on a Hackintosh and OS X handles it seamlessly. Ubuntu pukes hard and dies (or, almost as bad, just ignores monitors) when it can't figure out how it should handle them all in a single X session.

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Re:Apple seeks to trademark “startup” in Australia by thomasmeeks on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @04:33AM (#6288674)

A single X session cannot span two graphics cards. X just doesn't support it. You're waiting on Mir or Wayland for that one.

If you manage to get all four monitors on one card somehow, X can handle the multiple geometries just fine. Though it will generally do a terrible job of automatically detecting the right resolution.

Love Linux, but this bit does disappoint.

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Re:Apple seeks to trademark “startup” in Australia by eropple on Friday August 30, 2013 @04:18AM (#6300745)

I'm not waiting on anything. OS X supports it fine, and with a desktop environment on top that's much better for me.

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