On 7/31/2010 3:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 13:00:33 -0400, >> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> But they probably aren't going to work with recent kernels. So that makes them >> not very useful for using them on recent Fedora. >> >> >> >> Also the ones that are paid to develop graphics drivers have 3D support >> low on the their list of things to work on. Airlie covers some of this in: >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-November/042327.html >> >> >> >> The topic is more nuanced than that. Part of it is RPMFusion users getting >> support here instead of RPMFusion. Part of it is that Fedora's stated >> principals are such that it attracts people who care more about free software >> than say Ubuntu. Part of it is if you want to change corporations' >> behaviors you need to affect their bottom line. That is why some people here >> will advocate not buying nVidia hardware even when it is cheaper for the >> performance when using the binary drivers. Part of it is people using >> nVidia's driver stuff directly which changes your system in ways that >> may be hard to undo later and may introduce security problems that are >> hard to fix unless nVidia issues an update. >> > > Given the reality, that users bought computers which Linux supported > only a few years ago, and in some cases paid extra to get computers > which ran Linux, it really sends a message to have that hardware become > unsupported two years later. Thanks guys. Hand MSFT a big bag of FUD > about "will Linux even run on your computer by the time it's depreciated > or paid for?" Sadly, for once it's true. :-( Your last paragraph has me confused. The part about "paid extra". Paid extra for what exactly? I ask because I have never done that. I have stayed away from obvious conflicting things like Win-Modems and Lexmark printers but I have never paid more for Linux support. -- David
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