Seriously, what's going in at AMD?
We've been told that the reason the drivers lag behind is because of the three month development process, where one of the months is for testing before release. For example, if a new version of Xorg is released that's incompatible with fglrx, it'll take at least 2 months for a fixed driver to reach the end users, or somesuch.
What happened during that one month of testing 10.1, when official support for Ubuntu 9.10 was touted as a new feature? They never tested actually building packages for Ubuntu 9.10 before green lighting it?
And this release, 10.2; Compiz broke. How did that slip through testing? Imagine if Catalyst 10.2 for Windows Vista/7 was released with broken support for Aero Glass. Just think about it. Would never happen.
What are the testers doing, and how can I get a job at AMD as one? Because they seem to have a pretty easy job NOT DOING THEIR JOB.
We've been told that the reason the drivers lag behind is because of the three month development process, where one of the months is for testing before release. For example, if a new version of Xorg is released that's incompatible with fglrx, it'll take at least 2 months for a fixed driver to reach the end users, or somesuch.
What happened during that one month of testing 10.1, when official support for Ubuntu 9.10 was touted as a new feature? They never tested actually building packages for Ubuntu 9.10 before green lighting it?
And this release, 10.2; Compiz broke. How did that slip through testing? Imagine if Catalyst 10.2 for Windows Vista/7 was released with broken support for Aero Glass. Just think about it. Would never happen.
What are the testers doing, and how can I get a job at AMD as one? Because they seem to have a pretty easy job NOT DOING THEIR JOB.
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