be relieved of his responsibilities, but a leader doesn't just
> unload like that and publicly ruin somebody's reputation.
Linus is well known for being plain speaking and willing to share his
feelings. :-)
Goggle for "Linus Torvalds flame war". There is a long history of
Li
en a few sites that do a browser detect and then verify that
the software versions are up to snuff. Some will fail for anything
other than Windows or Mac based browsers. Never underestimate the
power of bad programming.
Steve D...
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:44 PM, m0gely wrote:
> Steve D... wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:52 AM, m0gely wrote:
>>> Steve D... wrote:
>>>> Intel creates Customer Reference Boards (CRB) that they license to
>>>> their customers, Dell,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mike Connors wrote:
> Steve D... wrote:
>> The loose motherboards aren't Open Hardware either. Those designs
>> are as encumbered with copyright and licensing as the box PC vendors.
>> Open Hardware means *open*. The designs a
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:52 AM, m0gely wrote:
> Steve D... wrote:
>> Intel creates Customer Reference Boards (CRB) that they license to
>> their customers, Dell, HP, ASUS, whatever. The CRB includes chip
>> information, CAD board design, BIOS, and other software need
vendors.
Open Hardware means *open*. The designs are suppose to be GPL'ed or
some other open license.
> As for laptops, I'm an IBM/Lenovo guy because IMHO the build quality is
> unmatched.
I like my R52. It's been a great little machine.
Stev
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:54 AM, m0gely wrote:
> Steve D... wrote:
>
>> Do you want to buy from Dell,
>> HP, Apple, ect. and get 0% Open Source and no chance of Open Source in
>> the future,
>
> Explain this please.
Intel creates Customer Reference Boards (C
om Dell,
HP, Apple, ect. and get 0% Open Source and no chance of Open Source in
the future, or do you go with Open-PC (or some other vendor) with 80%
Open Source and a damn good chance of 100% in the future?
Steve D...
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steve D... wrote:
>
>>> Do you see this as an accurate assessment?
>>
>> Pretty much... Your available choices are:
>>
>> 1) Deal with it... You many have to &quo
rceforge are pretty good.
4) Open up an issue with your NIC manufacture. They may be willing to
troubleshoot the problem and provide a fixed driver. This would be
good for the Linux community. Somebody has to be willing to feel the
pain so we can
erface.
You need to remember that some link modes will result in a Duplex
Mismatch. You can create link problems by manually configuring an
invalid configuration.
General Troubleshooting for 10/100/1000 Mbps NICs
Autonegotiation Valid Configuration Table
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/swi
3com PCI ethernet card in that chassis until Intel
provided some better code.
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ot; CD? It would give you a lot
more tools to work with on that end.
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ds with the full power of Linux beneath
the hood.
Sugar
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar
Fedora 11 (Alpha) has a Live CD spin with a Sugar interface. You
can give Sugar a test drive without committing a hard drive.
Fedora Project Spins Tracker
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
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