On Thursday 16 December 2010 18:53:14 Per Jessen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:50:41PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Greg KH wrote: possibly plus: - major 3d open driver advancements - large KDE advancements from previous releases
I'm classifying those as "possible" because I don't know if they are significant enough to be noticed by the end-user?
Both the 3d open drivers and the KDE advancements are indeed noticable - IF you use a KDE desktop with 3D effects... If not, you won't notice much :D So that's a problem we have, we have a hard time with a lack of sync between KDE and GNOME and LXDE/XFCE etc here... GNOME is about to release 3.0 but we just don't ship that. I guess our next release will ship with GNOME 3.0, will have a newer KDE too, and other cool stuff as usual - seeing the enthousiasm in the project lately (resulting in new projects like Bretzn, Tumbleweed & Evergreen) I expect more :D
p.s. This is why I feel the whole major.minor numbering scheme for software is broken, and just use 1 number for projects that I was/am in charge of naming (udev, usbutils, etc.) I think it's worked out much better that way over the long-term.
A working major.minor versioning scheme requires a purpose and active management.