On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 14:06 -0500, Don Schmadel wrote: > 2) NVDIA proprietary drivers have to be incorporated in such a way that > they don't conflict with the other available video drivers. This almost > works.
I've fought with this a bit in the past. If you could state the specific issue you are facing, I might be able to help. Are you talking about automatically choosing an X driver at boot time? BTW, nouveau is getting pretty good now, though it does not support some of the newest cards. I have been using it on my Dell Latitude D620 since December with no major problems. > 2) It easy to carry around a small USB drive instead of a laptop. If > this were to become universal, one might not have to carry around a > laptop any more. You are totally at the mercy of the computer you plug the drive into. It could have anything from a hardware keylogger to a modified BIOS that claims to boot from your drive but in fact boots a hypervisor that brings up your system in a VM and injects malware into it. For this reason, I prefer to carry a laptop. -- Matt
