On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:57:33AM +0200, Zolt?n HUBERT wrote:
> Well, I'm using SuSE Pro 9.3 (excellent choice by the way),
> coming with kernel 2.6.10-SuSE, on a ATI laptop, and the
> drivers privided wouldn't compile (suspend & freinds). The
> SATA disks were only supported from 2.6.15 (which just came
> out), so I had to edit the "source code" of a closed source
> driver to make it all work well. If that's "easy" for you I
> doubt it is for 99.999% of earth's population. "World
> domination" is far away.
Have you ever tried installing windows xp from scratch on a new laptop?
Same (if not worse) problem.
> Also, the 7 National Instruments cards I'm using for a
> deformable mirror in Adaptive Optics in an industrial PC
> are "certified" for SuSE 9.3 only. Which, this week, got
> discontinued. So what now ?
If you buy hardware that only works with one particular release of one
distribution, that is pretty much a way to ensure you will soon be
unable to use that hardware anymore. Don't do that.
> ???? should ???? who do you think "users" are ????
People that install a distribution and use it. Sometimes they upgrade
to the next release of the distribution.
> Who said I was using vanilla kernels ?
Well if you change the kernel on your distribution, then you aren't
running that distribution anymore. You changed something.
> no, it's MY problem.
Well it is their problem to fix, and your problem that you bought their
stuff in the first place.
> and what about their users ?
The kernel developers can't fix the problems of the closed source code
anyhow, so it isn't the kernel developers problem. It is a problem of
the closed source developer and their users (who chose that hardware
themselves.) The kernel developers didn't recomend the hardware, and
didn't make the users buy that stuff.
--
Len Sorensen
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