On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:18 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote: > > On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the best i can say is, slackware by design is for expert( read bsd'ish) > > > users. > > That is untrue. But at the same time it is matter of perception.. > sorry for not being clear : slackware is very bare with configuration utilities, in comparison with mandriva or fedora.
> > Being bsd'ish is less of a problem than the hardware manufacturers not > > giving the specs of their hardware. Reverse engineering the hardware > > behaviour to write the drivers is always going to be sub-optimal than > > writing them straight from the specs. > > Graphics cards are the worst affected in this respect. Also WiFi. > > Next time if you can't run your hardware on Linux, blame the > > manufacturer, not Linux. > > I think the OP referred BSDish is terms of configuration methods not the > licensing.. > > Shridhar. > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
