Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> > Correct in the case of non-GPL drivers - but e.g. AVM or any developer
> > could make their own CD and ship it with their products like they do
> > for Windows.  Now we only need a stable kernel ABI ;-(
> 
> The stable kernel ABI won't happen (soon), the changing ABI is used
> to make it difficult to provide binary only kernel modules and it's
> getting more difficult every time. 

The goal of the changing ABI is however not to break binary only drivers,
but to make the Linux kernel stay fast, clean, and innovating.
 
> I'm personally searching for a laptop with GPL only drivers and that's
> not easy, it used to be GPL only drivers in the past when you bought
> a laptop which supported Linux but this is not always the case these
> days. And I don't want to be stuck with an older or specific distribution
> just because then all my hardware will work. Any tips are appreciated!

Especially WLAN and graphics card requirements have crept in... yes.
Previously it was just winmodems...

Ciao, Marcus