On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:19 -0500, Rajko M wrote:
One possible solution for vendors showed Conexant (modems). Making agreement with Linuxant they have Linux driver that is self financing operation.
Here's my last comment on the matter ... There is a _difference_ between quality assurance just on an _individual_ software project basis, and integration testing multiple pieces of software as a whole _distribution_. While you can often do effective integration and regression testing of a piece of software on its own, with the immediate software it is designed to work with or rely on, you can't possibly address all the countless combinations of software that people will throw at a distribution. There's only so many systems and combinations distributions can put under test in-house and in-beta before release. It's only when you finally release that you run into software combinations that were never expected. And they are software combinations that had nothing to do with the original intent of the distribution. Those distributions that adopt newer APIs and software versions will definitely have more issues upon release -- even if they fully develop, integrate and regression test all the components that ship in the distribution itself. Red Hat has been infamous on this -- forcing people to move to various APIs. GLibC 2 (Red Hat Linux 5.0), ANSI C++/GCC 3 (Red Hat Linux 7 and, subsequently, RHAS2.1/RHEL2), NPTL (Red Hat Linux 9 and, subsequently, RHEL3), SELinux (Fedora Core 3 and, subsequently, RHEL4), etc... All of these software packages were fully integration and regression tested in their distributions _before_ release. But they were definitely going to cause issues with _other_ software integrated with the software _after_ release. They weren't "broken," but they were definitely "causing issues" as the result of adoption and their _inability_ to support some legacy code/interfaces/etc... Sometimes you have to just adopt something for people to move in the right direction. After all, some people are still bitching about Red Hat Linux 5.0. ;-> Despite the fact that moving to GLibC 2, away from the old, and security nightmare LibC4/5 forks from GLibC 1, was one of the best things. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------- Illegal Immigration = "Representation Without Taxation" -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com