On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Correct in the case of non-GPL drivers - but e.g. AVM or any developer could make their own CD and ship it with their products like they do for Windows. Now we only need a stable kernel ABI ;-(
The stable kernel ABI won't happen (soon), the changing ABI is used to make it difficult to provide binary only kernel modules and it's getting more difficult every time.
The goal of the changing ABI is however not to break binary only drivers, but to make the Linux kernel stay fast, clean, and innovating.
I'm personally searching for a laptop with GPL only drivers and that's not easy, it used to be GPL only drivers in the past when you bought a laptop which supported Linux but this is not always the case these days. And I don't want to be stuck with an older or specific distribution just because then all my hardware will work. Any tips are appreciated!
Especially WLAN and graphics card requirements have crept in... yes. Previously it was just winmodems... Ciao, Marcus