Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Florian Diesch]

Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> 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?
>
> It became Canonical's responsibility when they started distributing an
> operating system that depends on it. I do not care who is responsible
> for any particular bug, I turn to my OS vendor (the distro) when these
> issues arise, as it _is_ their responsibility to provide a working
> solution. Otherwise, I would use Linux From Scratch.

The release notes for 9.04 said that there are problems with
Intel graphic cards. So if you install 9.04 and have problems with
Intel graphic cards you shouldn't blame Canonical.


   Florian
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