>>>>> "si" == SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi sniff, if things was so easy .... si> I couldn't agree more. It would be a lighter kernel to si> boot since you could disable alot of options that are si> just not used on a laptop (such as raid, ham radio, si> most pci/isa network cards, etc) nope, each person decides that it use its laptop as it wants :((((( Some people are network administrators and use the laptop to go to the rack and see what things are working and what not (i.e. they want token-ring and similar other strange things). There is SCSI PCMIC cards for laptops, and just now everybody can have a cd-burner in its laptop (aka you need scsi support). si> It would also lighten the load on the standard kernel si> since you could remove laptop related issues such as si> pcmcia, etc. there was _big_ cryes, when we told people that smp kernels didn't have pcmcia, people bougth a new server (it is SMP), it is the router of the compny, and they put there a PCI-PCMCIA card for putting wireless in the office. The issue here is that you (or me by the matter) should not told people what they can/can't do. si> I think it is an obvious choice and Mandrake could si> brag about being the only Distro that caters to si> laptops! Things are improving ..... only that slowly. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
