On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:28:34PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: > DSM> No user wants to hear a story, they want their systems to work, and > DSM> developers do too. I don't want to hear a story either, because all I > DSM> see are user's systems not working and nothing that can be done about > DSM> it at this time. > > <rant> > There are also other kinds of people who just choose the vendors who > work with opensource community and whose products do not need nonfree > firmware. Personally, I have stayed away from tg3 (among other things) > because the vendor and/or driver authors can't make it work hassle-free > for me. It _seems_ to go against kernel and Debian policies and so > causes troubles. As a user, I see nothing wrong with (for instance) > standard firmware loading interface support so nonfree firmware can be > supported better by distributions. > </rant>
Problem with that is most newer Suns come with tg3 as the only ethernet card, so not being able to use tg3 precludes a huge class of from-factory machines. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]