On Thursday 05 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm using a Dell Inspiron 6400 lappy with Fedora Core 6. At the time I > bought it, one HAD to purchase Windowx XP with it, but now I think > that you have a choice of Vista or some Linux distro, I don't know > which. I don't think that any lappy today comes without Vista. >
OK. > > 10. All hardware works with open source drivers, at least on Linux. > > FreeBSD would be a big plus. > > I haven't had a chance to test the bluetooth, and the wifi/video card > may need closed source drivers. I don't understand why you are so > uptight about using open source drivers when you plan on dualbooting > with Windows. Should I remind you that windows is not open source? > Windows is not open-source. I hate its usability, power and robustness, but I guess I can still use it under VMware. Opera[1], VMware Workstation, Flash, etc. are also not open source, but they're user-land applications and high-quality to some extent. And they don't interfere with my rest of the work in my otherwise 100% free software Linux distribution. However, proprietary drivers in Linux are Evil with a capital E. See: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/why_binaryonly_linux_kernel_mo.html http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html (a petition I started). Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - Just for the record, I dislike using Opera, find it an inferior browser in comparison to Konqueror and Firefox, and just use it to test my web-sites, in order to have yet-another browser to test with. Even if it was superior, I wouldn't have used it because it's not open-source. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
