There is another reason to do this too:
Economics.
Not backporting new packages encourages people to beta test and move quickly to the newest version. Less legacy support, more bug reports, a win for everyone.
I have to agree here. I've got a 3 year old Thinkpad with a Radeon Mobility 9600, using the open source driver. I actually found the performance and stability of Compiz Fusion on Gutsy tribe 5 better than it is in Feisty. Perhaps this has something to do with the X.org update. This will be handled as gracefully as the restricted drivers manager was for Feisty, which means it will be unobtrusive and elegant.
Witty replies aside, can anyone think of a reason why someone might describe Debian in this way? 'Cause unless I'm missing something, Debian is actually quite easy to use:
From TFA: LT: "...Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me."
The parent's theory is that the comment is "old." So was Debian ever in the past extremely technical?
http://popfly.ms/Overview/ - click on "watch the popfly screencast" If you want, watch the video. I have to admit the concept is kinda cool. The way you can edit block code and share it... It seems to me that MS is trying to leverage a community which openly shares code modifications. The problem is that it is all based on a closed-source platform, and I'm sure the best hackers would rather work on an open platform, instead of one which could change or become obsolete without notice.
The funniest part is if you skip to 9:50 when there is a demonstration of a digg reader. The first listed article mentions the exclusive MS / Lenovo deal, but, even better, the second is "Hackers use Windows Update to download..."
Despite Silverlight looking quite polished in the demo, MS still cannot avoid bad press on a free-information internet, and thus, still cannot be cool.
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Ditto.
I only boot into XP to play games, maybe once a week. And each time I do so, it takes >2 minutes to get a usable desktop because of the windows updater, virus scan updates, and general sluggishness. I've been bitten by data loss from auto-update too, and that behavior is one of the big things that makes me feel happy to get back to Ubuntu.
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There is another reason to do this too: Economics. Not backporting new packages encourages people to beta test and move quickly to the newest version. Less legacy support, more bug reports, a win for everyone.
Or option 3... asplode?
I have to agree here. I've got a 3 year old Thinkpad with a Radeon Mobility 9600, using the open source driver. I actually found the performance and stability of Compiz Fusion on Gutsy tribe 5 better than it is in Feisty. Perhaps this has something to do with the X.org update. This will be handled as gracefully as the restricted drivers manager was for Feisty, which means it will be unobtrusive and elegant.
Witty replies aside, can anyone think of a reason why someone might describe Debian in this way? 'Cause unless I'm missing something, Debian is actually quite easy to use:
From TFA: LT: "...Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me."
The parent's theory is that the comment is "old." So was Debian ever in the past extremely technical?
http://popfly.ms/Overview/ - click on "watch the popfly screencast"
If you want, watch the video. I have to admit the concept is kinda cool. The way you can edit block code and share it... It seems to me that MS is trying to leverage a community which openly shares code modifications. The problem is that it is all based on a closed-source platform, and I'm sure the best hackers would rather work on an open platform, instead of one which could change or become obsolete without notice.
The funniest part is if you skip to 9:50 when there is a demonstration of a digg reader. The first listed article mentions the exclusive MS / Lenovo deal, but, even better, the second is "Hackers use Windows Update to download..."
Despite Silverlight looking quite polished in the demo, MS still cannot avoid bad press on a free-information internet, and thus, still cannot be cool.
Ditto. I only boot into XP to play games, maybe once a week. And each time I do so, it takes >2 minutes to get a usable desktop because of the windows updater, virus scan updates, and general sluggishness. I've been bitten by data loss from auto-update too, and that behavior is one of the big things that makes me feel happy to get back to Ubuntu.