---- Linux Canuck <[email protected]> wrote: > All of you who have ATI graphics cards, take note that they have open sourced > all of their current drivers. New ones will be released as they become > available. This is great news as AMD/ATI was one of the big holdouts for open > source drivers. This should spur Nvidia to improve its support. It can only > be good news for Linux users. Be patient if you have a really new card, but > it should not be too long. Kernel developers will be adding them quickly over > the next few months. > > I have also been using Jaunty the last while and it looks good. For starters > it has ext4 and it is much faster. It copies large files and folders in a > small fraction of the time. It includes KDE 4.2 for the Kubuntu version. The > developers claim that they expect it to be really stable.
Once again, Ubuntu does it right and Fedora doesn't. Sigh. Fedora apparently did much, maybe even most (though I don't know) of the work on ext4. So, of course they include it. And, being Fedora, they assume that everyone will only set up a system with defaults, so that if you make one / partition instead of having a separate, ext2 or 3 /boot, the version of grub provided won't boot the system. (It won't go that far, it will stop you once you've created one ext4 partition and haven't created a /boot. Sigh. Ubuntu in contrast, did it right, providing a version of grub (whether patched or simply grub2, I'm not sure) that will allow you to make a single ext4 partition that works. Most people seem to echo Roy's experience of it being much faster. As I've only used it on a laptop where I don't do very much, I haven't really noticed. RedHat 5.3 has also added the support (though, I suspect, not to Grub.) So, I'm debating redoing my server when CentOS 5.3 comes out. Judging from what I see on Fedora forums, the ATI support is also a great thing. So many people have trouble with those cards, it's not funny. -- Scott ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
