Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Mike McGinn]

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 07:47:16 pm you wrote:
> > 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.

They made the decision to release it with the bug, which was known. Yhey could 
have gone with the old driver.

That's why.

Don't top post.

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