Comment 62 for bug 408417
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| Keith Edwin Smith (keith-ksmith) wrote Re: No option to log in remotely via XDMCP | #62 |
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(Get the code!)
As Scott says and moreover. Ubuntu could have "solved" this trivially. Ubuntu decided to package a broken version of GDM when an older functional version exists that is totally compatable and already working and in place in older versions of Ubuntu.
The purpose of an "upgrade" to an operating system is to *improve* functionality not *remove* functionality. All they had to do was leave the working GDM in place until the functionality was actually *improved* in the newer version. The reason we use things like Ubuntu is because we have an expectation that they have a vetting process to prevent stuff like this from happening giving us a smooth upgrade process. When you have a shop with 15 odd thin clients running X-servers, you upgrade, and nobody can now use the system until you jump thru hoops and replace packages and stuff, you kind of defeated the purpose of using Ubuntu in the first place. . .
Overall the improvments for use on my laptop and netbook are pretty stunning. It's just that one of my primary uses of a clean desktop system is to run thin X-clients, which is now kind of broken "out-of-the-box". We are not complaining about gdm-2.30, we are complaining that Ubuntu put it in the fragging "long-term-stable" distro *broken*.