Regarding KDE, in my thin client integrations, I have always chosen GNOME for accessibility. I know KDE has added such, but GNOME 2.0+ handled accessibility very well, and it's at the heart of the core libraries that all programs utilize.
Regarding mainboard and PCI modem, what solution have you been choosing? In years prior, I've often chosen the AMD chipset -- both CPU and GPU/peripheral) single chips -- that TSMC fabs at 55nm and, now, 40nm. It's been very compatible, and the boxes cheap ($99) in huge volume (4-5 figures). Intel has not been very competitive in this area until only recently with Atom, although that's a mixed bag. However, for Atom, also know that Intel has been pushing the new simple firmware (SFI)[1] that is *NOT* backward compatible with PC BIOS, and removes many of the compatible PCI I/O interfaces. I'm not talking about extensible firmware (EFI)[2] which is taking over the server world, which has a PC BIOS compatibility mode, but it's little brother SFI. I.e., try installing Windows on SFI.[1] If the system is using SFI, then you need to have a SFI-specific Linux toolkit, although there are some mainstream/upstream efforts in this area. I'd be interested in knowing the details of your hardware to identify why there are issues. I've done a lot of embedded in my time, and if you're device doesn't have a bus that remotely looks like a PC (the majority of embedded device evaluation boards do not), then that can be a major issue -- with any distribution or general PC OS. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Firmware_Interface [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance Linked Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith ------------------------------------------------------------ "Now if you own an automatic ... sell it! You are totally missing out on the coolest part of driving" -- Johnny O'Connell ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Gentlemen, I have participated in the rhel6 evaluations, both releases, from my experience, on-motherboard network not recognized / pci modem not supported / KDE not reasonably integrated or tested / ability to implement 'thin client' solution limited by all the above problems. The only reasonable response I have gotten is 'nobody else is having the problem' or in the case of the modem non-configuration a link to an ubuntu hint. If that is what we have come to, this release isn't ready. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-beta-list
