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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dart<keith@×××××××××.biz> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 |
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> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, |
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>> folks. |
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> Works for me. ;-) |
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> But its true that Xorg is making some rapid progress. There's some |
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> growing pains. If you are running Gentoo unstable mask (~<X>) then |
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> you are on the "bleeding edge" of open source development. Therefore |
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> occasional breakage is to be expected. File a bug, make it better. |
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> If you want stable, then use Ubuntu LTS release, or CentOS. Stable, but |
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> boring. ;-) |
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Thanks for the sermon, pastor. I guess. |
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Why did you jump to the conclusion that I am running unstable? I'm |
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not. I never have, though I occasionally (like twice in the 7 years |
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I've been using gentoo) marked a particular package for unstable. So |
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by elimination, the term for what I have should be "stable". Why then |
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try to exile me to a distro I don't want? |
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I do, however, pretty much need "working". A black screen, dead input |
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devices, and impossibly esoteric config files just don't cut it. (The |
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HAL learning curve is a danger in itself, and is just not worth it to |
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me. I don't expect to touch it for years, which means that when it |
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eventually gets broken I'll have forgotten it completely and have no |
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idea how to proceed safely). |
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I got a solution by disabling HAL in gentoo. And for my broken ubuntu |
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systems, I did indeed go back to LTS, but not so much because of the |
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LT, it's just that 8.04 is the last one that worked. That's the |
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upside of a binary distro -- my November backup was good enough (i.e. |
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it worked), and an overnight update brought everything up to speed and |
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up to snuff. The things that change a lot are all in /home, which was |
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not affected. |
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Hopefully, I can now get on with my summer projects. I'm done with |
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HAL and X. Until next time. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |