On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 14:11 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: > > > Can you imagine if we had to build drivers in this manner for EVERY > > piece of hardware on our computers ? Should we be applauding Nvidia > for > > their approach to Linux OS support ? I think not ! > > Newsflash: that's how it used to work, if you had anything beyond > a few select SCSI host adapters. I've been running Linux since 1.3.18, so I understand that. > > I'd love to know how an admin with 200 PCs with nvidia cards would > > handle this. > > The admin wouldn't run testing code, would blindly update with > "yum update" and, more generally, would not be as incompetent as you > appear to be. That is, an admin with 200 PCs to support would not > have > gotten in the position you did in the first place. Granted he wouldn't run yum update. But he would upgrade kernels from time to time. I guess he would build the nvidia module on one and distribute it to each machine to be installed at the same time as the kernel. Big pain. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
