Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Robby Workman
Tobias Weisserth wrote: GPL is good though if you want to force people to give back the code to you so that you can use it in your own dual-licensed projects. For people wanting true freedom of their code use: BSD or ISC it ;) The problem is the word free. BSD people tend to interpret free

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-11-05 Thread Robby Workman
Jon Simola wrote: After reading over the specs repeatedly, spending many nights studying their tangled tales and twisted methods, I have to agree with Theo: It would take an idiot to try writing a driver for these Broadcom chipsets. It would take an idiot to try doing it using only a laptop

More ammunition for the Blob fight

2006-10-16 Thread Robby Workman
Linux: NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver Exploit http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp -- http://rlworkman.net

Intel's Support for Open Source

2006-10-02 Thread Robby Workman
Mr. Awad and Mr. Ketreno: First, I offer my sincere thanks to Intel for their ongoing support for 965 graphics chipsets at http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ - as a Slackware Linux user, I appreciate having an open-source option for accelerated graphics. However, since I am also an OpenBSD

Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

2006-04-11 Thread Robby Workman
Andrew Ng wrote: Hi, understand that there are options to select xbase, game etcs during OpenBSD installation. Can I install these options, (particularly X) post-install same as the standard install, and not for Ports or other methods? I would not want to re-install the system unless necessary.