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Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered
- From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:47:47 +0200
- Message-id: <200602150947.47239.silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:30, Peter Czanik wrote:
> > Maybe some would see that equivalent with "don't buy".
>
> I'm sorry to say, but I agree. The main selling point of SUSE was in my
> experience, that everything worked out of the box. And not just worked,
I think the issue is having proprietary binary-only drivers in the kernel vs.
userspace. If those drivers are modified to be in userspace, SUSE will ship
them on the media and it would work out-of-the-box.
Is this right?
> > Maybe some would see that equivalent with "don't buy".
>
> I'm sorry to say, but I agree. The main selling point of SUSE was in my
> experience, that everything worked out of the box. And not just worked,
I think the issue is having proprietary binary-only drivers in the kernel vs.
userspace. If those drivers are modified to be in userspace, SUSE will ship
them on the media and it would work out-of-the-box.
Is this right?
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