On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 20:03 +0100, x414e54 wrote: > Stop wasting time in the replacing the Windows market I tend to agree. It's quite rare that something different can actually be a replacement, only an alternative. Sometimes an alternative is better, sometimes not. There are usually drawbacks in using an alternative, often they're serious enough to override any perceived advantages. Probably three-quarters of the battle is convincing someone that an alternative would be better (if it is), the rest then actually doing it. Personally, I'd like to see the end of the current motherboard technology, that's burdened with some ancient legacy it needs to keep on supporting. If we can avoid having to do all sorts of hacks to make it boot, and work, that would be a good thing. If we could avoid having to rely on closed-source vendor drivers, that would be a good thing. If we could avoid having to fiddle with a gazillion unexplained BIOS settings to try and make a system work, that would be a good thing. On the converse, being able to get into a BIOS when you need to, without having to work out how to access a BIOS that doesn't accept keyboard over USB during pre-boot, that would be a good thing, too (this isn't just limited to older hardware, either). And it'd be nice to get back to hardware that doesn't need failure-prone forced cooling. Various motherboard alternatives have been touted about, ones with open-source BIOS, ones with a completely different design than the usual Intel-CPU types. Sometimes they appear to be just concept, or developer boards, sometimes they're for a special purpose. And, perhaps, it's time to encourage wider take-up of such boards, rather than trying to use a board that has been designed for Windows. Let's face it, most of them are only designed for Windows. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
