On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:00:37PM -0000, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno gio, 04/06/2009 alle 13.17 +0000, ichudov ha scritto: > > When people say "Linux is not ready for desktop", this is what they > > mean. > > > > As a 12-years old (as a linux user) linux user, I have to say it's true. > I hoped for a long time that Ubuntu would have been different.
I am a "14 years old" Linux user, I used it as my primary OS since 1995, when I bought my first own PC I put Linux on it. And I have to say that there are many projects in GNU/Linux that have a great history of very careful, thoughtful software development, such as editors, binutils, gcc, apache, perl etc. These have self tests, etc and go through a very rigorous development process, so I never hesitate to trust them with my business. They find bugs automatically and fix discovered bugs. However, I think that any sort of a project that "does not fix bugs" may lose trust, and has a limited future, and I am greatly hoping that Ubuntu would not take that route. We cannot really recommend to people to "switch to pre-alpha Karmic", either. I do realize that 1) GUI stuff is not as amenable to automatic testing and 2) Ubuntu is trying to do this on a shoestring budget, so the situation is understandable, but in some ways it is unfortunate. I am a 100% Ubuntu user, this is what I use at home and what we have at work, so this is not meant to be jeering from sidelines. But I do feel that I have a deep interest in seeing my platform remain a reliable, trusted friend. Personally, on the balance of "wanting new cool stuff" versus "wanting to have reliable software", I tend to be skewed for the latter. > In this case, putting the old driver back in the distribution and > starting to chose the right driver based on user's feedback until the > too many intel issues are solved, would be mandatory. I tend to agree with you. i -- [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
