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Ubuntu 15.10 Kernel Regression That Broke Graphics Displays In VMWare Patched
prisoninmate writes: On Monday, February 22, 2016, Softpedia reported on the availability of new kernel updates for several of Canonical's supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu 15.10, for which five kernel vulnerabilities have been patched at that point in time. And from the looks of it, the respective kernel updates introduced a regression, which Canonical patched four days later, on February 26, 2016, saying that the issue was introduced along with the fixed vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) and it broke graphics displays for those running the OS in VMWare VMs.
I would be modding it up if I had points.
As it is, i'll just call you a thin-skinned fool. it's the Linux community's complete failure to move beyond the 70s (but still trying, in an adorably pathetic way) that drove me, and a large number of paid professionals, to OS X and even Windows. Linux is increasingly relegated to cloud and local development VMs. That's as close as Linux is ever going to get to the desktop market.
I am also posting an OPEN CALL for Linux developers to create a Linux platform which is 90% as usable as Mac OS X is, out of the box. I really do hate Apple and its philosophy, but stick to it mostly because my time isn't worthless. I am willing to put my money where my mouth is! Since so many Linux fanatics call Apple's work "trivial", you now have the opportunity to make $10,000 payable as $2,000 over five years (contingent on maintaining a stable platform) to perform this trivial task. I'm currently paying about $200/year amortized to Apple, in the form of their overpriced "hardware tax", in order to have a stable, usable POSIX-compliant experience. I am willing to pay at least ten times that much just to spite Apple. Any takers? Is anyone interested in my free money for doing a trivial task? Or am I just going to get insults for posting this?
I can follow up with details and specifications, if there is genuine interest. Basically: you are allowed to specialize your Linux distribution to specific hardware if you can take care of sourcing that hardware reliably (the cost of the hardware would be borne by me, in addition to the $10,000 for software, as long as it is close to the reasonable market price). I am not interested in an "App Store" (I don't use it anyway, and don't really like it). I just want a rock-solid build of basic applications (text editor, Chromium, music manager, etc.) with a half-way decent interface, and also painless availability of more specialized software from the usual repositories. I don't expect interfacing with iStuff since it's proprietary and that's not really your fault. I also don't expect stable, easy-to-use office software, since apparently that's impossible.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky