Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 08:11 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
On 14 Feb 2006 at 19:50, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
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Sure, hopefully you already ordered the big fat red warning sticker for the boxed product which explains, that things which just worked before, won't do anymore!
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I'd say that the media only includes GPL software now, and that Internet access is needed to download packages from non Novell-supported sites to complete the installation (media players, MP3, graphics drivers, modem drivers, printer drivers, ISDN, webcams, tuners, etc.).
Maybe some would see that equivalent with "don't buy".
Regards, Ulrich
Aha, you mean just like Windows? :-P (Setting up my AMD64 machine I needed internet access for Windows to get the Promise S-ATA driver so Windows would actually admit there was a hard disk attached to the machine, and the Yukon NIC driver, that's not to mention it didn't recognise the audio, video, processor, southbridge, DVD-RAM, PDA, MS Gamevoice, mouse and keyboard correctly - I suppose I should consider myself lucky the video card, mouse and keyboard worked with the default drivers, even if poorly. Come to think of it the only things which were 100% recognised were the floppy drive for loading the S-ATA driver (and I had to buy one of those, it was a legacy free PC before XP got its grubby mits on it :-( ) and the DVD-ROM. Then I had to download the video and audio codecs and install a DVD player and codec...) Well, not quite that bad then, I suppose, SUSE still has thousands more drivers included than Windows does, even when excluding the non-GPL Kernel stuff... But if you are using a piece of hardware (especially modem/ISDN adapter) that is affected, I guess that it is no consolation that the manufacturers haven't pulled the thumbs out and worked with Novell/SUSE on a solution to this problem... And from what I read on the IRC, it is no non-GPL kernel modules, but we need clarification on that... Dave