on 7/5/2007 4:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Not very important though. >> My point really was that since one would presumably >> have to go to freshrpms.net anyway to find out about it, >> it didn't matter too much whether RedHat gave a pointer or not. > > How do you suggest that a new user might find out, for example, that > Nvidia gives away a driver and others package it for easy installation > in fedora? - All perfectly legal and something many users would like to > know how to find. You talkin' ta me Les? ;-) Probably not. <sigh> First, before the speech. You mentioned nVidia by name. So here is a 'readme" for those that are interested. It is about 9 months old but it just goes to show what closed source software can do for you. http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 You asked: How would I do this if I was a Linux Newbie today? I would know enough about the Linux OS, in this case Fedora it could be any of many other Linux distributions, that I was thinking about installing on my computer *before* I installed anything or even downloaded anything. I would do some basic research, some basic reading, some Google searches. I would look for the easy to find installation instructions like those that Rahul, and others, have worked so hard to provide that are on the Fedora Wiki site. As well read the FAQs and the known problems and suggestions for solutions that are also easily found on the Wiki site. Don't know where the Wiki site is? Google 'fedora' the hits fill the screen, there 10 pages of hits, and the first two hits on the first page - click - and you are at the Wiki and/or help pages. The very last thing I would do would be to ask on a list like this only because you have to know what you do not understand before you can ask intelligent questions. Have you not seen people trying to help Newbies and that sometimes they have to pry the needed information out of them to help them? Here is where you would find the hints, tips and information, provided by list users, to the third party sites for the non supported software. The information that Fedora can not provide, or chooses not to provide, for what appears to me to be legal issues and Fedora policies. I would think that only a fool would attempt to install an OS before they even knew if their hardware was supported. That is what I did many, many years ago, before I downloaded the first ISO. In those days there might have been two CD ISOs. As I recall the first time it was one. And that's my 2 cents. -- David
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