Re: nvidia

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Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

Scott van Looy wrote:

Progress isn't a bad thing. Ranting at Fedora people because someone else's hardware isn't easy to make work on their OS is a bit silly though.

But, but, but... What's the point of an OS if it doesn't make it easy to use hardware????

To operate the CPU(s) - hardware support is optional and often in obscure places absent or wonky at best. Device drivers are the single thing that causes more problems with _all_ OSen than anything else. If my webcam didn't work under vista I'd blame the webcam manufacturer for not having created drivers that work, not Microsoft for not having anticipated a webcam of a certain type.

Would you moan at redhat if you couldn't get Oracle to work on it, yet Oracle claimed linux compatibility?

Of course. There's not much excuse for screwing up interfaces that an OS is supposed to provide.

And the fact that everyone at Redhat would tell you to talk to Oracle for writing broken software wouldn't dissuade you?

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