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