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On 02/25/2012 07:05 AM, david wrote:

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> On 02/24/2012 10:18 AM, hermann wrote:

>> Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 09:35 -1000 schrieb david:

>>> I do. They should just keep up the NV drivers that DO work until the

>>> Nouveau drivers also work AND SUPPORT THE SAME HARDWARE, instead of

>>> dropping NV completely.

>>

>> You are free to download the source here :

>> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xserver-xorg-video-nv

>>

>> and patch it to make it work on debian/sid.

>> Then, you gone be a part of "They" ;-)

>

> Nice fantasy. I used to be able to read C++ code, but that was long ago.

>

> I think the real problem is that like a few other Linux communities (and

> Mac OS X and Windows), Debian doesn't listen to users. 

I've made quite the opposite experience; most if not all

Debian-maintainers that I - either as user or developer - have

communicated with are very open and responsive to feedback.
What goes around, comes around.
> And the decision

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> to replace a "known working product" with a "flaky experimental product"

> makes me question their project management abilities, too.

hell yeah, shit happens :)
Related to this discussion, Jake Edge has just written a very good

article called "Changes and complaints":

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/482557/7474ad08811a6570/
> A friend of mine doesn't run Sid, he runs the current Stable, and that

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> apparently doesn't include NV, either.

>

> Reminds me the KDE4 fiasco: KDE stopped supporting KDE3 the moment

> KDE4.0 shipped, but KDE4 didn't become ready for primetime until 4.5.

>

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