On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote: > I doubt this a lot. I've had several friends I set up with RHL. All of > them are now on WinXP. Why? Hardware never worked right (just > installing nvidia drivers was a pain, and they broke whenever a kernel > security update came along), Polite response: Well, doesn't that tell you something about why closed source drivers aren't what we want? We use Linux because it is open source - if you have an itch, you can scratch it. That's the power of Linux - look at the kernel. In a proprietary Unix, you have a few options you can twiddle for a limited kernel recompile. You have to wait for the vendor to make fixes or put in new features. In Linux you can compile your own kernel - and tweak parameters to suit yourself, or increase performance where it matters to you. Less polite response: have you never listened to RMS? Or Alan Cox? We may be stuck with closed source drivers - but this is exactly the situation they lead to. And then you say Linux sucks...
