Re: Switching from Ubuntu

["Shawn H. Corey" <shawnhcorey@gmail.com>]

Rogério Brito wrote:
> When did this happen? During a stable release? I would think not, but,
> then, I wouldn't make any assurances. :-)
>
> I would bet that the opposite would be "the current way" that things are
> going (not that I have powerful hardware---I'm still quite happy with
> some 8 or 9 y.o. cards).
>
> Anyway, Ubuntu are probably not changing things that much. The upstream
> developers at Xorg probably make some major changes and those changes
> are usually carried over to the distributions.
>
> > I think I shall try a more recent version of Ubuntu.  And if that
> > fails, perhaps I'll just rewrite the API ;)
>
> Just grab a newer live CD of, say, karmic and see the results.

Apparent video is all buggered up.  My instincts were right, Debian is 
better:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7615981#postmenu_7580152


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