Proposal: Rolling Release

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>> How does that answer my question? Let me repeat. I've asked what 
>>> policy it
>>> is that "forced a horribly fractured 3rd party repository situation"? 
>>> I'm
>>> not aware of any such policy.
>>
>> All I can say is that with Ubuntu you can pick vendor drivers and Sun 
>> Java 1.5 from the software management tool and you almost never have 
>> to worry about conflicts among packages from the different repositories. 
> 
> If you meant proprietary drivers, just say it. "vendor drivers" is 
> confusing since several of the drivers in the kernel and xorg are vendor 
> supported and developed and available in the repository without conflicts.

I meant redistributable drivers, of course.

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