Hi,
While following some of the discussion about "FPC and Lazarus on ARM" it
made me think of a question I wanted to ask any Linux users, and I know
here are quite a few.
Is it only Ubuntu that cannibalized the Linux run-levels beyond
recognition, or is the same thing done in Debian too? I have zero
experience with Debian.
eg:
* Ubuntu doesn't have the standard run-levels defined like normal
Linux distros (eg: Slackware, Fedora etc) have.
- There is no "Multiuser without NFS" - run-level 2
- No "Full Multiuser mode" console login - run-level 3
- X11 - run-level 5
In Ubuntu run-levels 2-5 are all the same thing. F**ken stupid!
* Ubuntu use something called upstart which seems to have no editor
or any logic behind controlling what should start when. Run-Levels
have worked fine for decades, so why did Ubuntu have to break it!
On a side note:
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[warning: ranting on, so you might want to stop reading here]
In recent weeks I have been taking a look at various Linux distros again
- something I haven't really done for the last 8 years. Just to see what
is out there, because I have been using Ubuntu as my sole Linux distro
since 6.06. Overall, it seems Linux distros are getting worse and worse
with every release.
* They can't standardize on a technology. Lets take audio. First
something else, then OSS, then ALSA, then PulseAudio... what next,
and in how many months? A technology can never mature under Linux.
* DBUS, HAL etc is in the same boat as audio. Technology used keeps
changing every few months, so something totaly different and
untested.
* All recent distros seem to have screwed-up audio. How damn difficult
can it be??? It just works under Mac OS X, Windows, Haiku, OS/2
etc.. I tried Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.04... My audio mixer volume
settings are all set at 100%, yet I can hardly hear anything when
an application plays sound. This used to work just fine in Ubuntu
8.04.4, on the exact same system!
* Switching desktop environments (Gnome -> KDE) on the same system
gives me totally different audio levels!
* KDE 4.x is rubbish compared to KDE 3.5 (it's like Vista for Linux)
* Gnome is getting slower by the minute!
* X11 seems overall slower than a few year back.
* Fonts look totally different between KDE, Gnome etc when switching
desktop environments on the same system. How damn hard can this
really be as well, to get a consistent end-user experience... after
all, they all run on the same X11 GUI.
* Newer distros can now successfully make my P4 3Ghz laptop with 2GB
memory and a 128MB ATI Radeon video card come to a crawl - with a
new install! Where are the days when Linux was fast and nippy! Even
Windows 7 runs faster on that system than Linux.
I'm seriously running out of OS options here. Linux is frustrating the
hell out of me. Mac OS X doesn't run on my PC system. Windows is not
something I want to go back to, after experiencing the flexibility that
Linux had to offer. Haiku has great potential, but still to young for a
day-to-day work system. Maybe it's time I go back to my typewriter - it
never crashed on me, and the audio level (clicking sound as you type)
was at a consistent level even when I changed paper or the ribbon. :-)
Regards,
- Graeme -
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fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal
http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/
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