Les Mikesell wrote: >>> 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. >> >> (1) I don't think this is really relevant, > > That's because you don't understand it. What is "it"? The discussion was about packages of doubtful legality. nVidia's own Linux drivers are perfect legal. Get it? >> (2) I would have thought even a very new user >> would try googling for "nvidia linux" or even "nvidia fedora", >> and quickly learn all there was to know on the subject. > > Apparently you didn't do it very well. I don't have an nVidia card, so I didn't have to "do it", whatever "it" is. Are you saying I didn't run "google" very well? > I bought a Mac so I wouldn't have to deal with the problem or put up > with silly taunts about how bad proprietary drivers are... Bizarre. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
