ATI video comes out of the closet

[Les Mikesell]

Chris Jones wrote:
>> Those are great for server apps that were feature complete ages ago but
>> not so great for desktops apps receiving a lot of current attention. By
>> next year the Firefox, OpenOffice, Evolution, etc. versions they include
>> will be way, way out of date instead of just slightly outdated like they
>> are now. Does firefox 1.5 sound current to anyone here? Would you want
>> to be stuck with it until the next Centos release?
> 
> You are asking for the impossible. Stability AND cutting edge at the same 
> time. Yeah, right.

Well, what I really want is the ability to have more than one version of 
an application on my machine at a time so I can test the cutting edge 
version and take advantage of its features while being able to fall back 
to the old reliable release as needed, but that seems to be way too much 
to ask from the rpm/yum school of thought, particularly if they blindly 
track the FHS committee's arbitrary ideas about where files have to 
live.   But, an application crash once in a while is easier to tolerate 
than not booting after an update, and I don't think it is unreasonable 
to want a stable kernel AND current apps.  Firefox 2.x might still have 
a few bugs, but it probably won't crash my machine.

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   Les Mikesell
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