<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 6, 2008 10:08 PM, Hector Centeno <<a href="mailto:hcengar@gmail.com">hcengar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks a lot Greg for the information. My opinions are based only on<br>my experience as user (I've been using both Ubuntu and Fedora for<br>audio and visual production since Fedora Core 2 and Ubuntu Warty), but<br>is good to know the view from someone who works inside. From certain
<br>perspective, decisions like replacing the firewire stack in the final<br>release for one that breaks compatibility with older devices (I think<br>that's why FreeBob wont work with Juju, but thanks to Fernando to make
<br>it possible) makes it feel like there is more of an intention to beta<br>test than to provide with stability and compatibility, but on the<br>other hand I'm pretty sure the switch will probably bring benefits to<br>
the wider Linux community. Anyways, all work is appreciated! And any<br>Linux distro has it's ups and downs (e.g. I'm starting to have some<br>freezes and login problems with the Ubuntu RT kernel).</blockquote><div>
<br>Yeah, the firewire change definitely bit us -- but someone's got to move first, right? Because if you don't make the changes first at the library/kernel level, you can't then make the necessary changes at the application level.
<br><br>That balance between stability and innovation is always painful.<br><br>--g<br></div></div><br>