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About the Xserver so what. The forthcoming of the drivers are more importend at least for me. But i wished google ibm and co would pay more developers for X at all. Its the one point that slow down linux progess on the desktop (at most). Although there was much progress in the last 2 years on this sector but it could be still faster.
At the gentoo guys, i am thinking on switching to Arch linux, because they do things often more simple. I looked for the compiz-enabled r600/700 packaging-files for both distributions, on archlinux side you just klick on AUR for community-packages, search the package and you find it. can download it (maybe even with the packman directly) and install it.
On gentoo side, i first checked on the bugs side, found nothing, then i searched in the forums, found some "postings" where i can copy and paste it in my local portage tree (what i first had to setup), then i need generate the checksums, and then i maybe can compile it.
Compile kernels are also no task what i will do for livetime, its nice to have the possibility but i dont need that always.
But thats not all, i am mainly think about switching because gentoo is to conservative they stick to long to stuff, as example syncronising portage over git is 2x - 3x so fast then it takes with rsync, such stuff changes only very slowly. And i run gentoo complete in unstable mode.
I know Archlinux is also no distribution for people who dont want do stuff by hand, but i think the time to admin it will be shorter, maybe i am wrong, i will give it a try.
At the gentoo guys, i am thinking on switching to Arch linux, because they do things often more simple. I looked for the compiz-enabled r600/700 packaging-files for both distributions, on archlinux side you just klick on AUR for community-packages, search the package and you find it. can download it (maybe even with the packman directly) and install it.
On gentoo side, i first checked on the bugs side, found nothing, then i searched in the forums, found some "postings" where i can copy and paste it in my local portage tree (what i first had to setup), then i need generate the checksums, and then i maybe can compile it.
Compile kernels are also no task what i will do for livetime, its nice to have the possibility but i dont need that always.
But thats not all, i am mainly think about switching because gentoo is to conservative they stick to long to stuff, as example syncronising portage over git is 2x - 3x so fast then it takes with rsync, such stuff changes only very slowly. And i run gentoo complete in unstable mode.
I know Archlinux is also no distribution for people who dont want do stuff by hand, but i think the time to admin it will be shorter, maybe i am wrong, i will give it a try.
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