When you are deploying linux to the laptop user, and have to add/support
many additional drivers it's a different story.
Yes one can argue that its the hardware vendors fault, and you should
complain to them. The reality is we live in a Microsoft world(like
nobody knew that).
I just wished that RedHat were able to provide these proprietary
drivers, and not rely on 3rd party sites(it's hardy enterprise). There
are always ways to work around IP issues.
Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
I'm an enterprise user with 1500 RedHat desktops. RedHat does meet my
demands.
I would say that Wireless support is not even in the top twenty most
important things to an Enterprise user because our machine density
would make the speed of any wireless network slow to a crawl. With a
wired network we can get +100Mb/s to every desktop, and that is much
more important. If RedHat had left out the driver for some industry
standard wired network card, then we would have cause to complain.
On 15 Nov 2006, at 10:04, Grant Williamson wrote:
Thomas - "You're in the minority." you must be joking.
Thomas Cameron wrote:
Grant Williamson wrote:
Brian,
there are always alternative ways to deliver software, its not a
question agreeing or disagreeing with
opensource. Why should I need to go to Intel, the reason I need to
choose an enterprise distro is for support.
Are you intentionally being obtuse? It's Intel's blob, and it is
not Open Source. It is not Red Hat's. Red Hat has no ability to
modify or fix the blob. That is not Red Hat's fault, it's Intel's.
If anyone should be working with the hardware vendors its RedHat
not me. It boils down to whether redhat is able
to meet the demands of the enterprise desktop user. The unfortunate
answer is no.
You're in the minority.
Thomas
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