-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 12:01 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Looks like a case where the hardware manufacturer can't be bothered anymore to fix its own BIOS, but SUSE or the kernel devs should work around the bugs in it. They usually do, but I have to say that it's not fair to SUSE. Hardware manufacturer should take care of its shit until the customer is done using it. If you're prepared to accept that the manufacturer will not do that, why not accept that SUSE can't do that either? I'd rather know that kernel devs--people with valuable knowledge--spend their time working on important stuff rather than toiling at workarounds for obscure bugs in ancient BIOSes. The bigger the generation gap between hardware and software, the harder it becomes to make it work, it's a rule. So if you really need to reinstall the OS on some old junk, it means it's time to get rid of the junk.
It has always been a selling point for Linux to say that it supported older hardware, giving it a new life. And surely, Per is talking of Pentium IV class machines, those are not so old! I'd force developers to use five year old machines (minimum!), so they'd care a bit more for us... :-P Or, shall we need to have Vista class machines in order to run Linux?
ISA-support: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231191
:-( ISA support, come on! Even worse, ISA PnP, what a nightmare...
There are quite a few high end industrial machines still using very expensive isa cards. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7VYqtTMYHG2NR9URAsxrAKCFIXgV5134dDUG3NCYuHNe2VVGWACbBoVi +YfFsZwfn1c4R1z9IW+CZk0= =hSVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org