Linux has changed quite a lot in last 10 years. The GUI, theme, KDE (and GNOME) the package manager, the office - Libreoffice now, Openoffice then - the OpenGL support, the drivers and the community support to mention a few superficial but palpable. Kernel release numbers are incremented more frequently and distros update their versions faster. Amarok is rocking but is not alone.
Earlier a single installation of Mandrake Linux used to take like 5 hours. It used to take 5 CDs (DVDs were yet to get in vogue) and multiple insertions of CDs over a night to get you started in Mandrake. After that the nights used to get busier with series of package dependencies. Think about it now - a usual Ubuntu/Mint installation takes like 20 minutes, with almost all the things you'll need. This is called change. Rahul Gandhi and Congress government can learn from these examples and change their governance.
Another change can be observed in the list of additional packages. I still some time use/edit /etc/fstab but don't mind doing it.
/dev/sxx /mnt/point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
This is probably the most frequent line I use during first boot of my Linux installation. I ususally also update a few useful packages, like - qtcreator, kile, chrome, freeglut3-dev etc.
The thing that hasn't changed since is - the requirement of more packages. I guess this greed will not change ever. The new version of Qt (5.1) is more inviting for developers.
And the bliss of using a Linux system has been a constant - mind that, as they say the Gravitational constant is temporally changing (sometimes I think science is a curve fitting exercise!).
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