Re: Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

> On 5/27/2010 1:39 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Les wrote:
>>> On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
<snip>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the hint!
>>>>> I tried the workaround but unfortunately I still have the problem...
>>>>
>>>> I cured my nvidia driver problems (which re-arose every kernel update
>>>> or re-compile) by putting in an ATI video card.  Problems since
>>>> then = 0 nvidia is not fond of the Linux world (compared to ATI).
>>>
>>> A more realistic way to say that is that linux is intentionally
>>> incompatible with a lot of other software.
>>
>> Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot
>> proprietary,  and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their
>> own drivers for Linux.
>
> Exactly - and it is linux that intentionally makes it difficult to
> impossible to use such software even if others would like to give it to
> you on their own terms.  Just put the blame in the right place.

Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it
"difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all
the other unices. It's not M$, and it's not Apple... so is being neither
making it hard?

        mark

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