On Thursday 21 Jun 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > In this matter (proprietary or restricted drivers or codecs) the > LinuxMint people are slightly more liberal. I test installed > LinuxMint 11 (I only this release on the USB at that time) on an > ASUS F51 a few days. The whole *installation process running off of > a USB stick took just 6 minutes* and everything, including the > Bluetooth, WiFi, touchpad scrolling and tapping, worked like a > charm. I need not mention that most of the useful and, or needed > office applications, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp and > Osmo etc. are included in these Debian/Ubuntu or derivative > distributions.
For the record, I'm against proprietary drivers. My reasons for not using them are documented somewhere in this list's archives, from a few years ago. Much simpler to just buy hardware that works out of the box with built- in drivers; in the process you encourage the manufacturers who play well with the FOSS community, rather than rewarding those who want to have their cake (keep their interfaces secret) and eat it (still have Linux support for their devices) too. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
