On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:51 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
AAgrhaheh. The claim from you was that it is easy for a user to update
the drivers for a new kernel, or install new drivers which had been
developed to a new kernel. Just three lines-- untar, configure and
make. I point out that it is NOT that easy. It is that easy only if
the user's system has been set up as a development environment.
If you get a new soundcard and your current system does not support it
there's a simple fix for non-developers:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Funny, my distributions (mandrake 10.1 and Mandriva 2006) have no such
commands.
Um, you get my point, every distro has a package manager with a command
that says "update packages to the latest version".
Mandrake is still running 1.0.8 Alsa on their latest kernel in 2006 ( and
is at alsa 1.0.3 on the latest kernel on 10.1 and previous distros have no
updates at all anymore.) Debian on their latest stable is I belive still on
the 2.4.x kernels. Yeah. Manufacturers should rely on distributions to get
out their drivers.
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