Well,
it was about time for a thread like this :)
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Welcome back, Donnie! I hoped to meet you at CeBit, you missed a great
show.
> > SuSE's major strength that I see, and the reason I installed SuSE over my RedHat
> > Linux setup is that they are involved not only in bundling software, but also in
> > preparing the drivers. SuSE wrote the drivers that support my video card under
> > X. I would have waited another month to get it from RedHat.
>
> The converse can also be true, depending on your video card, though.
> We had NeoMagic drivers available before anyone else did, for example.
Just to get it straight: neither Red Hat nor SuSE actually _wrote_ these
drivers themselves. Red Hat, for example, consulted Precision Insight to
write the i740 and Neomagic X-Servers, while SuSE coordinated the
development and negotiated between the hardware vendors and the XFree86
developers (which also got paid from SuSE for their work). Credit where
credit is due...
> SuSE probably has better support for European ISDN devices as well.
But the support for Cable Modems (DHCP anyone?) is weaker, since these
devices are not very common in Europe...
> I can't think of anything else where there should be a significant
> difference as far as device drivers, though.
Well, we also offer some additional binary-only kernel drivers, but that
should be it.
Bye,
LenZ
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