On Friday 22 June 2007 00:29, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > You might think it's easy for me to simply "use" Linux > > and complain while you're doing the hard stuff. As it > > happens, the current development/stable model makes our > > life as "users" more and more difficult. > > In what way?
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. 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 ? > Most users should be using distribution kernels anyway, ???? should ???? who do you think "users" are ???? > not vanilla kernel.org kernels. Who said I was using vanilla kernels ? > > "development" branches. And it would certainly help > > vendors of closed-source drivers. > Their choice, their problem. no, it's MY problem. > I don't think you'll find very > many people on this list who gives a damn about the > troubles of closed source driver developers. and what about their users ? z -- ________________________ Zoltan ________________________ - 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/