D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 00:55 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
[…]
> Googling it reveals the usual wishy-washy answers in Ubuntu support forums, even 
> for 12.10. Nobody seems to know.

Googling for anything to do with Ubuntu is not the issue, the issue is
Linux and SSD.  Given the issue about a special command that needs to be
issues by the OS (*), it all depends on which version of Linux has that.
I assume 3.6 and later have it as there are happily working Linux
Ultrabooks out there, so Linux and SSD work, Intel demands it. The fact
that you are on 10.10 currently is a potential issue, as the Linux
support may not have been smoothed out by then.

> With Windows 7, it's easy. Yes. End of story.

Windows, delete it. End of Story.


(*) SSD should have all the flashing management algorithms built in to
the firmware, the OS should not be able to distinguish an SSD from a
random access sequence of bytes accessed as a SATA device.  We were
using flash devices in 2004 when all this was already sorted.

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