> What makes you think that Red Hat Linux is marketed at "gamers"?  
> I'm not sure where you've gotten that disillusion.
Well, probably I've taken the idea of "general purpose distro" too far.
Alan and you, Mike, has already proved I was wrong:)

> on their Microsoft Windows CDROM.  People go to their vendor's 
> website and download updated drivers, and they can do that in 
> Linux as well.
Yes. That's reasonable point (especially with Alan's comments about
gamers and drivers on CDs).

> drivers and then get tonnes of bug reports from users claiming 
> "you ship it you must support it DAMNIT!!!" when there would be 
:)) Yes. Since I am very far from the world of commercial distromaking -
I just forgot about this issue.

> products as video game systems, and I don't think it'll happen 
> anytime in the forseeable future either.
AFAIK the only distro for gamers was something from Mandrake. How did
they handle the problems with binary drivers - anybody knows?

Thanks for explainations,

-- 
Sergey

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