On 07/04/2012 08:43 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Fernando Cassia
<fcassia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Robert Myers <rbmyersusa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am anticipating that I will be able to do that in Ubuntu but not in
>> Fedora, and conversations in Ubuntu forums indicates that my exact hardware
>> should work just fine.
>
> I fail to grasp what would be so fundamentally different between
> Ubuntu and Fedora with regards to virtualization and flash support.
>
There is no fundamental difference that I know of between Ubuntu and
Fedora with regard to virtualization.
With regard to flash support, Ubuntu supports it more or less
transparently and, if you want to use it on Fedora, you can spend the
rest of your life on forums like this one. You don't really want me
here forever, do you?
The difference between Fedora and Ubuntu that really matters, and if
you don't want to hear it, just stop reading my posts, is that the
people who use Ubuntu are generally more like the people who use
Windows and Canonical knows it and caters to them. Red Hat (along
with Fedora and its manifestly snotty community) turns up its nose at
such users. It doesn't want them.
Surely this is more to do with Fedora being a free software
distribution. Sure, we could relax that rule and allow unfree
software in the distribution, but if we did Fedora would then be a
different thing. If what you want is really a mixed free/unfree
distribution, we can't help you.
Thus, if I need to find the *exact* Ubuntu driver for the very
popular webcam I actually use, not only can I find it, but I can
also find people who use it and talk about how to use it. If there
are such users in the Fedora community, I have so far not
encountered them. Red Hat threw its amateur users overboard to
maximize shareholder value. A few loyal diehards hung on. This
loyal diehard can no longer afford to.
Clearly you've been letting the anger and frustration build for a long
time, and it all comes out at once. But is there anything from a
practical point of view that you think we can do, short of
distributing unfree software?
Andrew.