Guys, <SOAP_BOX> I have many problems to work out with Linux. One of them is the fact that my 5.3 was inadvertently shipped to my old address so I don't expect to see it till wednesday :-(. When we consider hardware support in Linux, we must realize that vendors are not writing drivers. Thay are written by the Linux community. Last I checked we are they. I will be the first to admit I don't contribute to these coding efforts. I figure the best way for me to contribute is to break things. I'm not too bad at that. I see that some of you are also skilled in that area. I like what I am getting out of S.u.S.E. I could simply stay with NT and do almost everything I want to with computers. I stopped liking Microsoft wen they started dumping IE on the market trying to kill Netscape. I never really liked their proprietary design decisions. When I went shopping for Linux distributions I compared S.u.S.E. and another leading distribution and found S.u.S.E. seemed to be ahead in certain categories. I have not been disappointed. Sure I would have liked glibc2 sooner. (I may go ahead and read up on installing that to coexist with glib1 on 5.2. since it will be a week till I get 5.3) Since I have invested my time and efforts into S.u.S.E. I feel like it is in my best interest to help it grow. This means pointing out flaws in such a way that helps the S.u.S.E. team, and does not attempt to demoralize them. Let's take problems with the new distribution one at a time, and not slam the new release as altogether bad. There may be problems. Let's fix them. Let's make the product we know and use the best in the world. The best way to make sure you are on a winning team is to pull for the team when things go wrong. The best way to undermine a winning team is to condemn its players when things of wrong. </SOAP_BOX> Steve, Fred A. Miller wrote:
W.D.McKinney wrote:
Well after using the sound with the kernel drivers and isapnp, they don't match up to OSS Commercial for my AWE64 Gold. I don't think you want to call users lame because they support commercial software. That is not what this or any other Linux list is for.
I don't think Mike is saying that, and in addition, HE'S RIGHT!! There are some things that should NOT take an act of Congress to work properly!! Proper hardware support and ease of installation is MANDATORY, and 5.3 doesn't have it!
Fred
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