Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 13:00:33 -0400,
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
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> But they probably aren't going to work with recent kernels. So that makes them
> not very useful for using them on recent Fedora.
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> Also the ones that are paid to develop graphics drivers have 3D support
> low on the their list of things to work on. Airlie covers some of this in:
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-November/042327.html
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> The topic is more nuanced than that. Part of it is RPMFusion users getting
> support here instead of RPMFusion. Part of it is that Fedora's stated
> principals are such that it attracts people who care more about free software
> than say Ubuntu. Part of it is if you want to change corporations'
> behaviors you need to affect their bottom line. That is why some people here
> will advocate not buying nVidia hardware even when it is cheaper for the
> performance when using the binary drivers. Part of it is people using
> nVidia's driver stuff directly which changes your system in ways that
> may be hard to undo later and may introduce security problems that are
> hard to fix unless nVidia issues an update.
>
Given the reality, that users bought computers which Linux supported
only a few years ago, and in some cases paid extra to get computers
which ran Linux, it really sends a message to have that hardware become
unsupported two years later. Thanks guys. Hand MSFT a big bag of FUD
about "will Linux even run on your computer by the time it's depreciated
or paid for?" Sadly, for once it's true. :-(
Your last paragraph has me confused. The part about "paid extra". Paid
extra for what exactly?
I ask because I have never done that. I have stayed away from obvious
conflicting things like Win-Modems and Lexmark printers but I have never
paid more for Linux support.
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David