Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 08:11 schrieb Ulrich Windl: > On 14 Feb 2006 at 19:50, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > [...] > > > Sure, hopefully you already ordered the big fat red warning sticker for > > the boxed product which explains, that things which just worked before, > > won't do anymore! > > [...] > > I'd say that the media only includes GPL software now, and that Internet > access is needed to download packages from non Novell-supported sites to > complete the installation (media players, MP3, graphics drivers, modem > drivers, printer drivers, ISDN, webcams, tuners, etc.). > > Maybe some would see that equivalent with "don't buy". > > Regards, > Ulrich >
Aha, you mean just like Windows? :-P (Setting up my AMD64 machine I needed internet access for Windows to get the Promise S-ATA driver so Windows would actually admit there was a hard disk attached to the machine, and the Yukon NIC driver, that's not to mention it didn't recognise the audio, video, processor, southbridge, DVD-RAM, PDA, MS Gamevoice, mouse and keyboard correctly - I suppose I should consider myself lucky the video card, mouse and keyboard worked with the default drivers, even if poorly. Come to think of it the only things which were 100% recognised were the floppy drive for loading the S-ATA driver (and I had to buy one of those, it was a legacy free PC before XP got its grubby mits on it :-( ) and the DVD-ROM. Then I had to download the video and audio codecs and install a DVD player and codec...) Well, not quite that bad then, I suppose, SUSE still has thousands more drivers included than Windows does, even when excluding the non-GPL Kernel stuff... But if you are using a piece of hardware (especially modem/ISDN adapter) that is affected, I guess that it is no consolation that the manufacturers haven't pulled the thumbs out and worked with Novell/SUSE on a solution to this problem... And from what I read on the IRC, it is no non-GPL kernel modules, but we need clarification on that... Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
