On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 15:54 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > > Kim Lux wrote: > >> installed before booting it. In effect, teach her to rpm -q > >> kmod-nvidia ? Yeah, that seems user friendly. > >> > > Let's be realistic here, Linux for the masses (of mums) is just a plain > > silly concept at the moment. > > No, I don't think it is a silly concept. Fedora is -fantastic- for > "mums" mostly because you can tell yum to update things nightly, and the > software magically takes care of itself! And no virus worries! > > However, the closed driver module / kernel update issue breaks that ease > of set-and-forget. Which sucks. So I don't use kernel modules anymore... > No it does not. Have you heard of --exclude=kernel* ? > I have my dad on FC5. It works very well! (Sorry, no benchmarks to > characterize my claims...) > > > - Mike >
