With all due respect, if Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE, Caldera, Slackware and
who-ever start modifying the kernels so that drivers and binaries will not
run between them,
You just killed the movement and handed power back to Microsoft.
I have been through this garbage in the Unix world and it divides and
conquers yourself.
I love how easy Mandrake is to install, but will switch in a second it is
the companies position that compatibility and reliability will be
compromised for any reason.
If not, or I misunderstood your post, I apologize.
Christopher Cox
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> From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment
> Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:20 PM
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, S. Newhouse wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound
> > card.
> >
> > I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web
> > site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the
> > RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I tried to install them in Mandrake
> > and (of course) they did not work. Anyone have ideas about how we can
> > get these people and others to release sources to their drivers so
> > that they can be compiled for every distribution?
> >
> > -sen
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
