On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Alexander Preisinger < alexander.preisinger@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/6/3 Keith Hinton <keithint1234@gmail.com>:
Hi, Why is it that Arch seems to take longer than say other distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, etc, to support newer versions of Xorg and Gnome? I was curious about that process. While Debian/Ubuntu/etc distros seem to be supporting the Gnome desktop just fine, it appears that others most noticeably that of Gentoo and other such similar distros, mask or test out Gnome/Xorg, rather than releasing it strate away into say in Arches case, the extra/core repos. I had another question, relating to that of Arch, some webpages I have found compare Arch to Debian Cid/Unstable. How true is this, and exactly in what way is Arch Linux itself, like that of Debian Cid? Thanks! Regards, --Keith Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37@hotmail.com Yahoo messenger /AIM: keithint1234
Arch was the fastest distro releasing Gnome 2.30.
We also have Xorg 1.8 sitting in testing repos soon to hit regular repos. I dont know where your getting your information from but Ubuntu nor Debian stable are not running this yet. The only comparison between ourselves and Debian Sid is that we are both rolling releases, yet where Arch is always rolling Sid will be frozen and feature tested before it moves to stable. We owe it to users using the normal repos to at least move big packages like this through testing before they hit regular repos for the sake of stability. Even with them going through testing first, Arch is one of the first to release as binary for sure.