On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Aschwin Marsman wrote: > 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.
The goal of the changing ABI is however not to break binary only drivers, but to make the Linux kernel stay fast, clean, and innovating. > 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! Especially WLAN and graphics card requirements have crept in... yes. Previously it was just winmodems... Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
