On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 11:55 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote: > 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. >
They do provide support for things on the Hardware Compatibility List ... where that will NOT be. Do you complain that Windows 2003 Server will not install on a Sparc T2000 machine with a T1 processor? Do you buy chocolate ice cream from a manufacturer who doesn't make vanilla ice cream and then complain that you are allergic to chocolate? If hardware vendors will not make their drivers open source ... and if you insist on using their products which are not on the HCL (and not moving to vendors who do use open source and are on the HCL) then YOU are the problem. YOU, not Red Hat, are enabling the situation. This issue is absolutely market driven. If people would contact the vendor, require that they provide a workable driver or make them refund the purchase price and stop settling for closed source binary shit then this situation would be fixed ... failing that, if you use a product not on the HCL, you are on your own. RHEL 5 is not made to install on there, they removed it from the kernel because they do not support it. If you want a supported Enterprise solution, buy items on the HCL. I don't understand why this is such a hard issue to comprehend. Maybe I am just too dense?
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