On Thursday 01 June 2006 08:06, Gaël Lams wrote:
Binary-only drivers run at a really privileged security level which gives them access to anything on your system, and if they screw up it can be a disaster. With drivers that have full source available, people can see what the driver is doing and make corrections as required. Using binary drivers makes you dependent on the vendors who provide them for fixing bugs and honestly, if I moved to Linux, it's to avoid it.
"full source available" is never going to happen for most of the hardware we currently operateor future hardware. Deal with that thought! Either linux finds a way to allow use of proprietary code or it dies. -- 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