[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

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Dayum, Joel, you're sounding dangerously like a free market libertarian.  Better watch your six for FedGov reps.
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The reason folks don't think of installing Windows as a painful experience is roughly the same reason men don't think of childbirth as a painful experience.      Mike, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/letters_3003/

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From: Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net>
> Stephen Castello wrote:
> > Now if Linux would figure out how to provide & install drivers as easy
> > as Windows & Mac.  The last time I tried Linux on a Shuttle SN85G4V3
> > with an old Nvidia 5500 agp.  The instructions: go to the web site and
> > get it.  Instructions on web site: just compile it & install. Then it
> > needed other bits that didn't exist. Around that time the GUI
> > disappeared to the command prompt. The error message basically said to
> > do a reinstall.  That ended that Linux attempt.  I forget which distro
> > it was.
> >
> > >From a review of Ubuntu 7.04 on PCMag.com, Linux still can't install
> > Nvidia drivers properly.
> >
> >   
> The way I look at it is that Nvidia still won't provide proper
> documentation for their hardware.  :)  If they did, every Linux distro
> on the planet would have a packaged version of a GPL Nvidia driver next
> month that would install seamlessly with yum, apt-get, rpm, synaptic
> (heck, probably even "myDSL").  The problem is not that "Linux" can't
> "figure out how to provide & install drivers as easy as Windows & Mac." 
> If you're using a major distribution, any drivers that are provided and
> officially supported by the distro's maintainers will in fact install as
> easy as Windows or Mac drivers.  Modern distros do a good job of
> automatically detecting and configuring almost all hardware that is
> properly documented, and even a lot of hardware that has had to be
> painstakingly reverse-engineered, under threat of DMCA violation and
> GiTMO-ization.
> 
> The problem is that some hardware manufacturers (Nvidia figures
> prominently among them) are apparently so ashamed of the inner workings
> of their goods that they are embarrassed to let anybody see how they
> work.  :)  Blaming Linux or Ubuntu for the infantile attitude of certain
> hardware manufacturers is hardly fair.  Place the blame where it's
> really due, and maybe even complain to those who deserve to hear a
> complaint.  :)  And while there are certainly plenty of legitimate
> complaints to be directed at maintainers of Linux distributions, this
> one can't be laid at their feet.
> 
> JCE
> > Stephen
> >   
> 
> 
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