On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:14:51PM +0100, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > I don't deny the advances made, I was pretty much happy with Linux
I wasn't talking about FLOSS, but the equivalent process happening to the atoms, not just bits. > usability too until last month when I had to spend 2 whole days > getting sound to work on a realtek chipset that shipped on a HP I try to studiously avoid anything Realtek. Audio and NICs particularly. > I ended up hacking the device driver to get it working - no better than 1997. After 1.0 (when it got X) Linux was perfectly useful as a desktop. i486/ET4000 was a quite performant system, at the time. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
