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wheel - 5:11 pm on Nov 25, 2008 (gmt 0)
The last thing that they just fixed in my distro (Mandriva) is the ability to auto-update everything, including the kernel. That's a big problem right now....my server is on an old version of mandriva. I daren't just upgrade on a live server that abruptly so I have to build an entire duplicate system offsite, upgrade to test, then perform the upgrade or swap at the datacenter. Not something I want to do... With the newer releases it looks like I can get 100% upgrades online, including new versions and new kernels, something I couldn't do before. ANd that means I can update 100% remotely through the years. Kinda like being able to move from 98 to xp to vista incrementally, without a CD and on a live system.
Most of my problems with linux went away over the years as I updated to newer versions. My screens started to look better, my wireless cares started to work automatically, the funky keys on my laptop like brightness and contrast worked one day, and a number of years ago my sound worked.