On Tuesday 30 November 2010 22:00:04 C wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 21:26, Greg KH wrote:
Without Packman support for at least some of the key kmod's and codecs needed by tumbleweed, I seriously doubt it will get much end-user adoption.
I don't care about closed source kernel modules that violate my personal copyright, and neither should you.
There is a world of difference between a "working" install of openSUSE and an install that is considered useful by the Desktop user base. Thus the comment about key kmods and codecs is quite valid. Without that.... a tumbleweed distro (something I'm VERY interested in) drops to a passing curiosity.
If Tumbleweed turns out to be popular, I doubt the Packman team won't provide packages for it...
This is not to say that a tumbleweed can't have those extras, or must have them.. but they should be considered/be available in some form.
C.