-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 22/05/2009 21:29, Mike Cloaked a écrit : > > > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> Stop considering proprietary drivers "acceptable", they are not. >> >> Kevin Kofler >> >> > > So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and > he/she just happens to own one single machine that just happens to have an > Nvidia graphics card - are you suggesting that people on this list tell this > new user to go away and buy a better machine with the "appropriate" > hardware, simply because Fedora default install does not support his/her > graphics card. C'mon now - be reasonable! He/she will likely go look for > another Linux distro! First I want to thank anybody who answered... On this subject: proprietary/non-proprietary, I would like to say that maybe some people can choose to only use free software, but it is not the case for everybody. 1- My lab in my university has contracts with companies and I have to choose in a panel of offers. For computers, it is Dell and Dell's offer is with nvidia graphic. What can I do? 2- I am not a computer scientist, I use computers (like many people) and I do not want to waste a lot of time to find out how to configure new hardwares I have never seen before. I know how to configure nvidia graphic cards because we have many computers with nvidia. All cards, up to now, are from Geforce series and I did not know if Quadro series were supported by fedora OS. 3- Many times we have to deal with hardwares using proprietary drivers, nvidia is among them. But, it seems to me that nvidia gives a lot of documentation on their cards and provides drivers and help for linux which make them easy to use.... This is not the case for all hardware manufacturers: who had never experienced a modem or lan or wifi card not working on his laptop? 4- Why not believe that one day nvidia will make open sources drivers? Sun, is now going to furnish an open source jre. Why? Is it because a lot of people from linux community refused to use the free, but not open sources, Sun jre? I don't think so! - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoXp5gACgkQdE6C2dhV2JWLDgCgwhXn2pkHYpxDisYpclzQ5dxB nFMAoLvd+ivZFxJ++DbJqwgxVUxNLPNk =TDNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
