On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:00:40PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 3) Sound Cards. Ditto - Things are getting much better than they used to > be. Kernel 2.4.19 is a huge improvement for both sound and video.
I'll comment here, that ALSA adds support for a multitude of chipsets, and sometimes rivals the MSW driver for the same card. (I see this with my Trident) > 5) The multiplicity of file systems, file system layouts, kernel > versions, pre-installed libraries and utilities all make it something > somewhere between very difficult indeed to well neigh impossible to > distribute software products in closed binary form such that they are > 'guaranteed to just go' on all Linux distributions. This means that the > big software houses are not prepared to create Linux versions of their > products when the Linux market is so small. The return on the necessary Enter FHS. I suggest you go and read about it. > on the point of succeeding by making a Linux distribution of their very > own, but just as soon as it looked as if it might be a reality they got It wasnt their own, it was built on Debian. > 6) The nightmare of the dependencies problem with RPMs. This is probably > the real show-stopper for really widespread Linux acceptance, and is why > the third-generation source only distributions such as Gentoo and > Sourcerer are so attractive. As I am sure 99% of people here are aware, RPM's are not the only package format. Albeit, that seems to be what vendors supply... but you get my point. Mike. -- Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <seeS> hmm, anyone good with SQL here? <elmo> err.. sees.. we usually ask you :-/
