On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:40:13PM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:23:47PM -0400, Jason Tang wrote: > >> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current > >> nvidia drivers. Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding > >> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's > >> confidence in the dev team. > >> > >> Most users could care less about supposed 'valid' reasons - that fact > >> is: No 3D acceleration == No F9 adoption (or worse, an eroding user > >> base). Lets not play this game with F10. > > > > Well I'm an Intel & Radeon user and Xorg in F9 is dramatically better > > better for all my machines. So, yes, if new code improves life for the > > open source drivers, lets do this again & again in future releaes. I don't > > want my desktop experiance held hostage by one company with binary drivers. > > I chose hardware which is supportable so I can get the best & latest open > > source has to offer. > > Why the H.E. double hockey sticks do people think proving > compatibility packages for nVidia users will somehow hold the desktop > hostage for everyone else? > > I do not understand why ajax could not provide compatibility rpms for > nVidia users? Is he not paid by redhat? I mean just how difficult > can it be to provide F8 xorg rpms on F9 for nVidia users?? The compatability RPMs already exist - its called F8. It is completely unsustainable to package 2 complete versions of the same package for the same release. Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
