Re: FN-FORUM: goolges brilliant

date posted 20th August 2008 20:35

Dave Cross wrote:
> Alex Townsend wrote:
>
>
>> Now some of the Linux distros are coming close to "out of the box"
>> installs that Joe Sixpack might feel comfortable with. Or at least until
>> they have to get into the command line to install wireless drivers, or
>> do a kernel compile.
>>
>
> Are you really seeing people still having to do that? I haven't had to
> do that on a Linux installation for about three years. A large part of
> that is Linux distributions becoming a good deal less precious about
> what software they contain. Ubuntu is now quite happy to offer you
> proprietary drivers in areas where there is no open source alternatives.
>
>
To my understanding, yes, they are still having to do that. The last
review I saw (of OpenSuse v11) at The Register (
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/open_suse_11_review/ ) mentioned
that people still needed to get drivers for nVidia in particular. And I
know that wireless drivers are still a minefield, although one
particular company/developer (can't remember the name off hand) have
generated a lot of workable drivers recently.

Alex
http://www.ozbon.com