Hello, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Keep in mind that perhaps over 95% of the users of linux distributions are -NOT- programmers.
Including me (if we don't writing control software for measurement equipment in Pascal ;-) ). And AVM provided us with excellent support up until now, at least from the users point of view. Would be sad to loose it just because of some religious wars of kernel developers. It does not mean, that I prefer binary only drivers, but having a binary only driver is still much better, than no driver at all. Just as it's also completely nonsense to use a Radeon 9250 just because it's the best 3D video card with open source driver...
Perhaps it -IS- time to start looking at BSD.
Welcome on board :) I started to use FreeBSD before Linux even reached 1.0. It's great for old hardware, where SUSE does not even install due to not enough memory. But with more open and closed source drivers in Linux, you better stay with SUSE on recent hardware! Bye, -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/