On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:07:32 +0100 Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> this > will be my third attempt at installing the o/s - we all love to hate > MS but I'm beginning to see why people don't venture out into the wild > > unknown of linux.... phew! Well, talk to Tom Brinkman about that. Not to excuse the lag in hardware support in Linux, but there is a very good reason. When a hardware vendor comes out with a new product, in your case I believe the display is the prob, not the Nvidia, they are lined up at MS's door to get software support, while Linux hackers have to beg and plead and hack and reverse engineer support for the latest and greatest. My point is, considering the way Linux is deliberately and egregiously shut out of the hardware advancement train with closed-source drivers and the like, it's a miracle that Linux developers are able to even keep up. These people are to be lauded and praised for their continues efforts, in many if not most cases for *free*. You don't choose Linux, as I think you implied, for the whiz-bang multimedia support, though it is fairly good for that too, you choose it because it is an alternative to the insecurity, instability, and wickedly bloodthirsty licensing and upgrade paths of MS OS's. Am I getting this right Tom? Tom? Wake up Tom! Don't worry, the peeps on this list are crazy but endlessly helpful. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -- William Allen White
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