> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dick Gevers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:51:22 +0200, Patricia Fraser wrote about > > [Mageia-discuss] Nice review!: > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>For our reading pleasure (and consideration): > >> > >>http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2076258/impressions-mageia-linux > >> > >>Kudos to these guys > > > > And to you! > > > > The only big problem they mention is the lack of decent video > drivers for both Ati and Nvidia in the DVD. Will Mageia ever have > those in the DVD or will it keep the "free" kind of version that > Mandriva has? > > If it was for me, I would include them but I don't know about the > original reasons of why they are not.
The T42 they used is quite old, and that model of IBM Thinkpad had a problematic Radeon card - I had loads of trouble with mine under Mandriva, even when using the proprietary drivers. I remember seeing loads of discussion about proprietary binary-only stuff on this very list, several times. I think most of it can now be found in the Tainted repos (that's where I found the codecs I needed). It's a legal issue - there are potential Mageia users in every country, and differences between licensing issues are very real. The main thing is to provide some sort of fall-back video driver (Vesa, anyone?) so that non-cli users can recover... and some instructions... 8-) Cheers, -- Trish Fraser, JD9R RQ2D 52.4161N,16.9303E vr jun 10 21:05:57 CEST 2011 GNU/Linux 1997-2010 #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 3 hour(s), 0 min. kernel 2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga --
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