Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 19:10, Osho GG wrote:
Does this mean we won't see ATI/NVidia's graphics drivers in their future releases? How much of the current hardware will be impacted by such a policy?
You never have seen the ATI/nVidia binary drivers as part of the release. A script was provided for nVidia that downloaded the driver from the nVidia website, and did the commands to get it installed. So there is no "impact" as such. (That is if you ignore the fact that this script is not in 10.1, thus making it harder for Joe Public to use accelerated Gfx on their system.)
Hopefully Novell will work on this as they are a distribution designed for end-users. I like this guy's take on the matter (including Novell's position) which was presented at a recent conference. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html Of course, there's always Arjan Van De Ven's doomsday scenereo... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.0/0972.html In the meantime, I'll just keep using SUSE on my systems and be glad I'm not using XP. I'm so happy when my son comes out of my office and tells me he got level three on Tux Math. :) -- K -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com