You are really going to blame the devs who (like madwifi above) are having to reverse engineer one of the most complicated pieces in a modern computer? And (like madwifi above) I still will pick the manu.’s driver over a reverse engineered one. Almost everything which involves GPU-accelerated graphics. The latter still doesn’t work on a lot of hardware, even resulting in graphics bugs on boot in some implementations, but well it’s shiny isn’t it ? Same scenario with legacy bootsplash methods and plymouth. sure edge cases need the advanced kitchen sink features, but most don’t. It is a cool idea, but frankly I think it is too much for what it is used for in 99% of cases. Oh, I completely agree that pulseaudio was not, and possibly is still not, ready for prime time. After years of careful dmix polish until linux audio bugs are finally a thing from the past, brutally declaring that pulseaudio is the future and putting it everywhere without making sure it work first. releasing a driver made me pick out only Atheros chipsets (this was before the other two big ones put out any good drivers) than a driver that may be missing key things (not saying madwifi did). IMHO, I’d rather have a beta from the manu. I was under the impression that the “ath” drivers came from Atheros itself, whereas madwifi was a reverse engineered driver. Distros brutally switching to the alpha and totally broken ath5k as soon as it’s around because they like the license better than madwifi’s. I love the linux desktop for my personal use. Oh, and I could have added to my list exceedingly early adoption of KDE 4 and GNOME 3 without leaving those time to mature first, as well. And when you go the way of obscure distros, you get obscure repositories too, which means that as soon as you want to do anything a bit fancy, you have to compile things by hand… Only few obscure distros actually seem to care about the stability and usability of what they’re shipping at the same time. And I have my issues with the latter too, as far as usability by unskilled users and packet freshness is concerned. Sometimes I know how to fix it, sometimes not.Įvery single major distro but Debian stable&testing or CentOS randomly breaks things from time to time because it’s cool to do so. There’s ALWAYS something wrong somewhere. I want to keep a working system at hand until I’ve fixed the next one. There’s a reason why I always install new distros on a separate HDD for testing first. How kind of them, but if they know it’s broken why do they keep shipping it instead of waiting before it’s ready ? Most funny award goes to Mandriva, which included a messed up pulseaudio installation as well as the others but offered the option to easily disable the whole thing via GUI. Happened to me on Ubuntu and its derivatives, Fedora, Mandriva and SuSE. And you can bet that Adobe has no intention of dropping Flash on OS X. If they drop flash on Linux, it will just a be a fire under the butts of the people who are working on the FOSS flash implementations that they better switch to high gear. The flash spec is open source now after all. Wonder how much longer before they drop Flash on desktop Linux as well, instead of merely treating it like a second-class citizen? Well here’s an idea, how about buying Adobe… If they’re going to be a Windows-only software house anyway, they would fit right in. Speaking of which, everybody’s on Balmer’s case for not doing “smart” things with the pile of cash Microsoft’s sitting on. And Microsoft is a quirky company to have to depend on for your last stand… like swimming with a shark while bleeding. It would pretty much relegate them to Windows 7 only. And I don’t think Adobe wants to give up Android after being thrown out of iOS. It can either be made to work properly on both, or on neither. Secondly, how do you kill Flash on desktop Linux but expect people to believe you’re maintaining it on Android? It doesn’t make a lot of sense. We’re incapable of making it work properly on anything else but Windows, so we’re just giving up.” Now that they’ve dropped Air and Reader X (according to the linked article), wonder how much longer before they drop Flash on desktop Linux as well, instead of merely treating it like a second-class citizen?įirst of all, it would send a very, very bad message: “Flash is not cross platform. I don’t understand why their PR department thought it would be a good idea to take pot shots at Linux geeks instead. I wish they’d have just come out and say it. All similar, distinct platforms with client-side storage are being phased out in favor of Web Storage, part of HTML5. The Linux spin is just them trying to save face at the expense of Linux (which is dirty, and people will remember it). As other commenters have said, this drop might well forecast them dropping Air altogether.
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