Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 1st Oct 2009 21:02 UTC
We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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2009-05-06
Yep the Window model works really well, I can use all my old devices and Windows supports more devices that any OS.......
Oh please. Windows driver API isn't really stable either. The difference is when it's changes, it's often completely rather than increments, and old drivers won't get update if it's not economical to do so. Just like bugs won't get fixed unless it's economical do so.
Even when you really do have stable, things change and you don't want to be stuck with some old broken design. Yes you can start to stack interfaces, but better is to change the driver to use the new design properly.
The policy of open drivers and unstable driver API is deliberate.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git;a=blob...
And it is working.