On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Correct in the case of non-GPL drivers - but e.g. AVM or any developer > could make their own CD and ship it with their products like they do > for Windows. Now we only need a stable kernel ABI ;-(
The stable kernel ABI won't happen (soon), the changing ABI is used to make it difficult to provide binary only kernel modules and it's getting more difficult every time. I'm personally searching for a laptop with GPL only drivers and that's not easy, it used to be GPL only drivers in the past when you bought a laptop which supported Linux but this is not always the case these days. And I don't want to be stuck with an older or specific distribution just because then all my hardware will work. Any tips are appreciated! Are SUSE certified laptops always free of binary drivers? > Andreas See you at FOSDEM, Aschwin Marsman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marsman.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
