Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 12:07 UTC
I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I have an Atom 330-based tiny computer which I use as my HTPC. It performed its job fine running Windows 7 and Boxee, and over the past few months, it ran Mac OS X Leopard with Plex. Now, however, I want to try Linux as an HTPC operating system, but I kind of ran into a roadblock there with Ubuntu 9.10 - so the question is: what is a good HTPC Linux distribution?
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Right, they just started their new release policy. The next one is supposed to come in 6 months, although we'll see whether or not that actually happens (see Phoronix for details). It sounds like they want to move all the drivers back into the core as well, and if that happens it may change to 3 month releases.
Right, but what's your alternative? The idea that the KDE folks just would have given up on KDE4 and stuck with slowly improving KDE3 releases was not going to happen. You can't just go up to those developers and say, I'm working with Canonical and I'd like you to do what I want instead of what you want to work on. Not unless you're paying them, that is. I'm sure your response to that is that they should have waited a couple more years before releasing it, but in the end I just think it's a judgement call. Why should the KDE devs be forced to delay their release and slow down their transition, just because it isn't ready to be used widely. If they want to release it, then they can, and they aren't going to listen to you just because you think they should. Canonical and the other distros should have taken a long, hard look at what they were putting out rather than just drinking the koolaid and going with it.
No question about that. It seems to me like there has been some more coordination and cooperation lately than there used to be, but more is always better.