DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/14/11 6:48 PM, Jean Crystof wrote:
> 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.

The darndest thing is I have Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop with KDE 3.5 on 
top... and love it. But this all is exciting - I think I'll make the 
switch, particularly now that I have a working backup solution.

Andrei