Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> It's a numbers game. How many contributors and testers will I lose or gain
>> compared to the hours of work spent? Until the server is a lot easier to
>> build from scratch, I think the numbers aren't in my favour yet.
>
> I agree with this sentiment for video drivers right now as well.
>From the distro builder point of view, when a new graphics chipset is
released, I'm much more likely to take an individual driver update back
to a LTS/enterprise support branch than take an entire new X server
version back, especially if that requires protocol updates that might
also trigger client library updates.
(At least that's my point of view for Solaris 10 - I can't claim to have
polled the people responsible for RHEL, SLED, Ubuntu LTS or any other
enterprise release, but would be interested to see their thoughts.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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