On Monday 17 November 2003 08:41 am, Anarky wrote: > yes, but assuming those drives only break for Mandrake, maybe not even > other distros nor windows .. then some could (reasonably imo) argue that > the hardware is okay and it's Mandrake's fault.
IIRC, Mandrake is not the only distro that included the code in question, just the most prevalent, thus garnering the lion's share of press about it. > I'm just thinking how > I'm going to explain this to somebody I might promote linux to: how can > I explain that it's his hardware's fault when he sees it working right? I would assume that you would explain it the same way in that instance as you would in the instance that they are using an unsupported modem, scanner, RAID controller card, sound card, etc. How is an unsupported drive any different? In fact, it is better in this instance in that a firmware upgrade will create a supported device. Much better than for a RAID card or scanner that is totally unsupported and never will be supported. If they are looking for something that is foolproof and involves no reasonable effort or accommodation, I would humbly suggest that you might be doing them a disservice by promoting Linux to them. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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