Stop the madness

[Markus Hitter]

Am 17.11.2009 um 12:19 schrieb patrick:

> Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even
> when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality
> software instead of buggy software like it is now !!

I had some thoughts on this as well and came to the conclusion, the  
base system and applications should be decoupled. Currently, the  
major reason to upgrade to the latest is for getting recent versions  
of applications.

Right now I'd be glad if I could run e.g. the latest VLC or AbiWord  
on last year's Ubuntu (Hardy). Hardy worked so well with my hardware  
while Jaunty asks me to do 5 minutes of manual tweaking until all  
subsystems are running. After each boot!

Of course, I could compile packages manually from upstream sources,  
and I have to for some packages as the distributed one is broken or  
removed intentionally (kqemu). But that's not the intention of using  
a distribution, after all.

There are some buddies providing PPA's across Ubuntu releases for  
popular applications and I appreciate that very much. Perhaps it's  
possible to extend that path and allow users to run modern  
applications on a matured base system (kernel, drivers, blank  
desktop, admin controls).


Markus

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