Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

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• Subject: Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)
• From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:21:55 +0100
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> I really shudder to think of how a newbie would have tried to handle this
> whole thing.  It ain't pretty.  Linux is *not* ready for the desktop, and
> I"m starting to wonder if it ever will be.

I suspect that until Nvidia leave the PC market and the ATI open source
drivers render the binary junk totally obsolete that problem will remain.

The ABI changes are flagged up well in advance.

Alan

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