On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:57:33AM +0200, Zolt?n HUBERT wrote: > Well, I'm using SuSE Pro 9.3 (excellent choice by the way), > coming with kernel 2.6.10-SuSE, on a ATI laptop, and the > drivers privided wouldn't compile (suspend & freinds). The > SATA disks were only supported from 2.6.15 (which just came > out), so I had to edit the "source code" of a closed source > driver to make it all work well. If that's "easy" for you I > doubt it is for 99.999% of earth's population. "World > domination" is far away.
Have you ever tried installing windows xp from scratch on a new laptop? Same (if not worse) problem. > Also, the 7 National Instruments cards I'm using for a > deformable mirror in Adaptive Optics in an industrial PC > are "certified" for SuSE 9.3 only. Which, this week, got > discontinued. So what now ? If you buy hardware that only works with one particular release of one distribution, that is pretty much a way to ensure you will soon be unable to use that hardware anymore. Don't do that. > ???? should ???? who do you think "users" are ???? People that install a distribution and use it. Sometimes they upgrade to the next release of the distribution. > Who said I was using vanilla kernels ? Well if you change the kernel on your distribution, then you aren't running that distribution anymore. You changed something. > no, it's MY problem. Well it is their problem to fix, and your problem that you bought their stuff in the first place. > and what about their users ? The kernel developers can't fix the problems of the closed source code anyhow, so it isn't the kernel developers problem. It is a problem of the closed source developer and their users (who chose that hardware themselves.) The kernel developers didn't recomend the hardware, and didn't make the users buy that stuff. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
