Mandriva 2006 (was Re:Idea on which Distros to support)

[John Macdonald]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:39:43PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On October 17, 2005 13:28, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> >
> >     I generally notice very little difference moving from one
> > version to the next.
> 
> I have noticed only improvements especially on desktop machines. The 
> version of KDE that came with 8.2 looks like it is out of the Stone 
> Age compared to the version in 2006. If you want modern versions of 
> Python, PostgreSQL, Apache, Qt, KDE, and various other packages, the 
> latest and greatest is bound to have those. You can certainly install 
> all that stuff from source in an older version of Mandrake but then 
> you no longer have Mandrake. You have a custom distro for which there 
> is one maintainer, you.

You notice the difference much more clearly when you move back
to an older version, far more than you notice the improvement
moving forward.  You can get used to improvements incrementaly,
but you lose all of them at once when you go back.

I remember not seeing much improvement moving from a 68000 to
a 68020 processor for a Unix system; but then after working
on it for a few days and then going back to the 68000, the
slowdown was painful.

I've noticed the same phenomenon many times since then.

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