Hello,
I don't blame linux for not having drivers or surport for my hard ware.
I believe that the company that makes the device should do this not
mandrake or any other distro. Like you said M$ put the companies on the
spot and they should not be aloud to do this. If only our politations
would do the right thing and look after the people. My video card has
linux drivers on the cd. But I did not need them as mandrake 7.1 worked
first time with no problems at all. I have three distros and am playing
around with them to see which one I like.
Why use linux cause windoze costs heaps and crashes heaps.
I am going to learn linux even if it kills me. I am having fun trying
to upgrade kde 1.x to kde 2.01 I have all the files on cd for suse 7 but
now the fun begins how do I use them. I did try kpackage but it won't
look at the rpm files, I think it might be me not knowing how to use
it, but I'm not complaining about this as this is part of the learning
curve. And having a lot of fun learning.
Anthony Daniell
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> On Friday 29 December 2000 11:57 am, Hipolito Lopez wrote:
> > That's a fact.
> > I don't have anything against microsoft, but the reality is that the
> > windows based operating system (win2k, win9x) it doesn't deserve to
> > be called operating system.
>
> Leaving out Win2k, you're right as far as you go. WinX.x -> Win ME
> is a GUI that runs on top of DOS. The combination can be just as
> effective for many users, as using KDE or Gnome (and other GUI's) on
> Linux. The caveats are the same with either GUI/OS, including Win2k.
> The user must take reponsibility for learning and maintaining both his
> hardware and software. For most Windoze users this is actually easier
> than for most Linux users. Usually revolves around keeping the
> Registry cleaned and optimized using native DOS tools that come with
> Windoze. EG, scanreg /fix and scanreg /opt run from a pure DOS
> environment, no Win GUI overhead active or present (ie, NOT an <F8> on
> boot). Most all Windoze users don't/don't know how to do this. There's
> similar situations with GUI/Linux users.
>
> The main problems for M$ users is the binary only, closed source,
> proprietary nature of the device drivers, many of which aren't M$
> certified, and the system problems and security issues they introduce.
> But guess what, this is also becoming a similar situation and large
> problem for the GUI/Linux community. Actually, it has been for some
> time now.
>
> M$'s real disservice is not the quality of their software, but the
> influence they exert on hardware manufacturers. The result has caused a
> quick deteriration in the quality and capability of available hardware.
> 'Specially from the manufacturers and venders most often pressed the
> hardest by M$, the big ready mades (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc.). It
> also is extended upon high volume specialty manufactures (motherboards,
> modems, video/ sound cards, etc.) This deterioration is also a large
> problem for Linux users, particularly the ones that blame problems they
> experience on the distro they just failed to install/setup. Those that
> say "but it works fine with Windows", or complain when they have to d/l
> binary drivers for their new video card, and blame Mandrake for not
> providing them when they can't get 'em working properly.
>
> Oh, well... another of my hardware, user reponsibility rants ;>
> --
> Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
