Debian Sid Moves to X.Org 212
debiansid writes "Yes, Debian sid finally has X.Org. The Changelogs suggest that some work has been taken from the Ubuntu packages of X.Org. Here is an
article that gives details on how to migrate to X.Org on sid. This article, by the way, has been posted from an X.Org based X-Window System, and it really IS much faster than XFree86."
Re:One complication... (Score:3, Insightful)
It would be really nice if Debian started another release process right after the transition to X.org and the C++ ABI are finished.
I really like Debian, and I'd prefer not to wait a couple years for the next release. :-)
Smoothest major upgrade I've ever done (Score:1, Insightful)
Runs real sweet, too.
No problems on a laptop or 4 desktops. Just use aptitude and hold back anything that causes conflicts.
Oh, and I didn't make any safety backups at all. Crazy me.
Re:One complication... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Comparisons? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Install X.org, remove 1/2 your system (Score:1, Insightful)
Wow, I wonder why they call it unstable (rolls eyes).
If you think that was annoying, I don't know what you'll do when serious issues surface after upgrading.
Re:One complication... (Score:5, Insightful)
The GCC people are the ones changing the ABI, and they're the ones losing credibility.
Re:gentoo leads (Score:2, Insightful)
The new hand-written recursive descent parser added in 3.4 [gnu.org] improved performance a fair bit (making 3.4 the fastest g++ version ever as of the release they claim). The performance for compiling without optimization was improved even more in 4.0 [gnu.org]. For Gentoo users and other OCD-level recompilers it might not matter, but it does help developers everywhere. This is what I would personally call the place where it matters, end users that obsess over recompiling stuff themselves for no reason can wait.
It is overall a general consensus among gcc developers that performance should be improved. Don't expect C-level compilation speeds from C++ though, it is a heavy language to compile by nature. This keeps getting worse with the increasing prevalence of extreme template metaprogramming libraries like Boost [boost.org], to a great part in meaningless areas in a quest for performance that will never matter or materialize (I don't claim that Boost or template metaprogramming is a bad thing, just that people obsessivly use it in places where normal coding practices would do just as well except for imagined performance/purity issues).
Re:Install X.org, remove 1/2 your system (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:One complication... (Score:2, Insightful)