Stop the madness

[Shentino]

Personally, I was ecstatic to try out Kernel Mode Setting.

I was very happy with it...until I found out that it absolutely butchered
the VGA console.  Finding out that vgacon was not supported broke my heart.

However, these decisions seem to have been made by the graphics guys up at
high-on-the-geek-totem-pole positions on grounds of conflict.

Seeing as I'm not prepared to give up my text-mode console, I promptly
disabled mode-setting once I found out that there was absolutely no way
around it.

Ok, now that my off the side rant is taken care of...

What about going the gentoo route and just having endless updates?  What
would be the merits/disadvantages in that case?

I'll be happy to admit, perhaps with a tinge of shame, that even 6 months is
too long.  Whenever a new release comes out I am always antsy and want it
badly.  I guess you could call it asynchronous development, where version
numbers levitate smoothly as new versions from upstream prove their worth.

Just as an aside...if gentoo's customizability were combined with ubuntu's
stellar package management and user friendliness I would consider it the
perfect distro.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:

>
> 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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