On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 11:51 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
Those people we hope to tempt from Windows are very likely to be the ones bad mouthing Linux as a whole with this sort of problem.
In reality, there are a _lot_ of video issues under Windows too. But this is a Linux list, and not a place to discuss such, so I won't.
It is 'sort of' acceptable when you have this problem with a freely downloadable distro' but certainly not when people are paying for it. I am surprised there haven't been cases taken to such bodies as Trading Standards (a UK official consumer body) with paid for distro's.
And that's one of the major reasons Red Hat got out of the "consumer" distro market, and I don't blame them. I will continue to applaud Novell-SuSE for continuing to release a retail box set. But the second Novell-SuSE decides not to, I won't blame them one bit. BTW, these reasons are why I wrote this blog article for people new to "community developed software" (in general) entitled "6 Things To Know About Linux": http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/10/6-things-to-know-about-linux.html #1-3 discuss why it has _nothing_ to do with what you pay for. #4-6 discuss why _control_ of the distribution channel has to do with _everything_. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Americans don't get upset because citizens in some foreign nations can burn the American flag -- Americans get upset because citizens in those same nations can't burn their own