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The Tuesday 2007-03-06 at 12:01 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > Looks like a case where the hardware manufacturer can't be bothered anymore > to > fix its own BIOS, but SUSE or the kernel devs should work around the bugs in > it. They usually do, but I have to say that it's not fair to SUSE. Hardware > manufacturer should take care of its shit until the customer is done using > it. If you're prepared to accept that the manufacturer will not do that, why > not accept that SUSE can't do that either? I'd rather know that kernel > devs--people with valuable knowledge--spend their time working on important > stuff rather than toiling at workarounds for obscure bugs in ancient BIOSes. > The bigger the generation gap between hardware and software, the harder it > becomes to make it work, it's a rule. So if you really need to reinstall the > OS on some old junk, it means it's time to get rid of the junk. It has always been a selling point for Linux to say that it supported older hardware, giving it a new life. And surely, Per is talking of Pentium IV class machines, those are not so old! I'd force developers to use five year old machines (minimum!), so they'd care a bit more for us... :-P Or, shall we need to have Vista class machines in order to run Linux? > > ISA-support: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231191 > > :-( > ISA support, come on! Even worse, ISA PnP, what a nightmare... There are quite a few high end industrial machines still using very expensive isa cards. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF7VYqtTMYHG2NR9URAsxrAKCFIXgV5134dDUG3NCYuHNe2VVGWACbBoVi +YfFsZwfn1c4R1z9IW+CZk0= =hSVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
