DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Jean Crystof]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Daniel Gibson wrote:
> > The hplip version in Ubuntu 8.04 and in Ubuntu 9.10 support your printer 
> > - I don't know about your version,
> 
> 8.10

This thread sure was interesting. Now what I'd like is if Walter could please try a Nvidia Geforce on Linux if the problems won't go away by upgrading his Ubuntu. Unfortunately that particular Ati graphics driver is constantly changing and it might take 1-2 years to make it work in Ubuntu: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=15614

The second thing is upgrading the Ubuntu. Telling how Linux sucks by using Ubuntu 8.10 is like telling how Windows 7 sucks when you're actually using Windows ME or 98. These have totally different software stacks, just to name a few:

openoffice 2 vs 3
ext3 vs ext4 filesystem
usb2 vs usb3 nowadays
kde3 vs kde4 (kde4 in 8.10 was badly broken)
gcc 4.3 vs 4.5
old style graphics drivers vs kernel mode switch
faster bootup
thousands of new features and drivers
tens of thousands of bugfixes

and so on. It makes no sense to discuss "Linux". It's constantly changing.