Quoth Geoffrey S. Mendelson: > They are from a company called VIA from Tiawan. The owner is a born again > CHristian. I DO NOT RECOMMEND USING THEM. Not because of his religon, but > because of their business practices.
Since Guy is looking at using their hardware as a generic Linux worksomething, not what you wanted to with it, Geoff, I think you're being overharsh. > In my experience they outright lie about power consumption and heat output. > They often DO NOT release open source drivers for their chips and you are > stuck using a particular version of the Kernel for their binaries. One release > of their video driver was for a Kernel that came as an update to dead rat 9. Again - for most of everything you need no drivers (excpet, maybe, their graphics chip - and it will work in generic vesa mode). As for the "dead rat" comment above - come now, Geoff - you seriously think the best Linux distro there is merits such a comment. M -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiftouch, LTD +972-544-676764 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
