Dear Martin, I do not complain at all about a slow or not existing process of providing recent drivers. As you can read in my postings ago, I tried to demonstrate that a lot of the postings in the forum is always about the same thing: people are looking for drivers of recent hardware - most NIC drivers.
Since the list of network cards is unmanageable, there should be very *small* list of network cards which should be supported and and listed -i.e. in the forum. Take a look at the Intel Etherexpress cards. As I know you only need 4 drivers (e100, e1000, e1000e and one compatible) for all intel based network cards and you're done. At least for basic support. And what, if your new server has not such a card? You have two choices: * have an exotic network card, download buildtool, download the driver from the manufacture, RTFM, configure, compile, run into trouble, restart, do it again, buy an other nic, do it again - all on your own. Hours over hours ... days passing ;-) - or - * buy for ~ 90 € a NIC with 2 ports - knowing that there is a driver in the modules tarball ? Why not adjusting a little bit the hardware to the software?! Since I do know the principles of opensouce I'll never complain about their work! I deeply respect it!!! Regards Juergen Northe 2009/4/19 Martin Hejl <mar...@hejl.de> > Hi Juergen, > > > it is just two postings ago, when I demonstrated, that there is a eager > > demand for recent NIC drivers. > possibly - but it seems the demand is not big enough for somebody (who > has that need) to do anything about it. > > As far as I can tell (as always, I can only speak for myself), none of > the "core developers" has that need (or the hardware available) - so > unless somebody with the need and the hardware picks up the ball, you > can complain as much as you want, but nothing will change. That's how > open source works (in my mind) - those with the means and the need > provide what's needed to meet their needs. If we had more people > providing something they're looking for, the project would be a lot > further. > > Martin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > -- mit freundlichem Gruss Jürgen Northe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
