On Thursday 01 January 2009 07:48:37 am JosipBroz wrote:
In my view, however, there IS one thing we GNU/Linux users can do. But we must do it PRIOR to purchasing hardware: and that is, always purchase GNU/Linux supported/certified hardware. That way, certain pieces of hardware should get a noticeable increase in sales, while other models (even from the same vendor) should get a corresponding decrease. It shouldn't take long for the manufacturers to figure out why this is happening. To be sure, your approach still holds: making pressure on the manufacturers IS a good strategy and DOES produce results. The two aspects described are complementary; moreover, there may be additional ways to help manufacturers change their attitude. The whole issue ultimately depends on market share: once the GNU/Linux segment becomes interesting enough, you may be sure the HW industry will act accordingly.
Hi Tito ;-) For you and everybody else, there is project led by Fedora, and now officially supported by openSUSE called Smolt. It is designed to collect hardware information from computers running Linux. What are the benefits is described in http://en.opensuse.org/Smolt . -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org