Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Christopher Chan]

> I'll believe Mark Shuttleworth's intentions are true only if the Intel video 
> driver bug gets fixed before Karmic -- see below:
>   
Since when did the Intel video driver becomes Mark Shuttleworth's or 
Canonical's responsibility?


>  HOWTO: Jaunty Intel Graphics Performance Guide
> Overview
> Some users are experiencing performance issues with Intel integrated graphics 
> chips in Jaunty (9.04) for several possible reasons:
>
>    1. The current driver in our repository has some performance issues with 
> the EXA acceleration method. Users will notice 2D performance is poor due to 
> the default "migration heuristic" employed by EXA (to "always" migrate 
> pixmaps), but this causes performance issues for many users. Setting the 
> heuristic to "greedy" alleviates this problem somewhat. See "man exa".
>    2. The new and faster acceleration method (UXA) is not enabled by default, 
> due to issues reported by many users. This code is being actively developed, 
> and many stability and performance issues have been resolved in the latest 
> drivers (specifically within the intel driver, libdrm, mesa and the latest 
> kernel 2.6.29.3). Unfortunately, Jaunty will not include the latest versions 
> necessary to improve performance.
>
> ** Actions speak louder than words. I am sure I am not the only one who wpuld 
> have stayed with Intrepid had I known this before upgrading.
>
>   

/me yawns. So you want the Ubuntu team to use the latest kernel and 
drivers and go through the whole alpha, beta, rc cycle again with 
Jaunty? Feel free to do this on your Jaunty installation and upload 
packages that are stable and play nice with the rest of the packages in 
Jaunty. Jaunty is not even a LTS release. Why should Mark Shuttleworth's 
intentions be tied into something about which there is no intentional 
motive other than not being in the right time and place? It is not as if 
he has asked for scanning of every media file that is copied to 'verify' 
copyrights non-infrigement.