ATI video comes out of the closet
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 20:22:41 UTC 2007
Frank Cox wrote:
>> Those are great for server apps that were feature complete ages ago but
>> not so great for desktops apps receiving a lot of current attention. By
>> next year the Firefox, OpenOffice, Evolution, etc. versions they include
>> will be way, way out of date instead of just slightly outdated like they
>> are now. Does firefox 1.5 sound current to anyone here? Would you want
>> to be stuck with it until the next Centos release?
>
> You are asking for something that is logically inconsistent.
>
> 1. You want absolutely stable software.
I want a stable kernel and device drivers. The unix-like system call
interface doesn't need to change every week.
> 2. You want the latest-and-greatest software.
I want current applications. These are very different things. A bug in
user space doesn't kill the machine.
> Though you try to sound like you are an "old hand" with computers and system
> administration, this demand makes it appear that you don't have the experience
> that you are claiming to have.
>
> By definition, the latest-and-greatest software is not going to be rock-solid
> stable. That's why it's called "cutting edge" -- you can sometimes get cut
> when you use it.
That's why I want a split between kernel and apps.
> You must make a choice here.
Only because of the bundling choices made for fedora and RHEL. It
doesn't have to be bundled that way.
> You have failed to make that choice, and want both. Sorry. It just doesn't
> work that way. "I demand a dog, but it has to look exactly like a cat."
>
> No. You can't have it.
I can't have it until someone bundles the set I want, or teaches a
package manager to install more than one version of an application on a
machine at a time. But apparently it hasn't occurred to anyone else
that a distribution that contained firefox 2.x and didn't crash after
updates would be desirable. So I have to keep repeating it.
> I realize that you are probably disappointed by this, but it's simply the
> nature of the way that software development works in real life.
No, the fedora scheme is pretty unique.
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Les Mikesell
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