Matthew Woehlke wrote:
I've had with Fedora 8/9 is the cr*p nvidia drivers don't work quite
right on my setup, and that's hardly Fedora's fault.
It is fedora's fault that their policy makes it difficult for you to
run vendor drivers.
I'm sure this wasn't your intent anyway, but please don't put words in
my mouth :-). I happen to *agree* with the policy. The problem, rather -
at least as I see it - is simply that nvidia's drivers suck :-).
Nobody can write code that always survives changes in non-standard
interfaces. Nvidia's drivers for OS's that provide stable interfaces
work fine.
Which
is hardly Fedora's fault;
Well, it is a generic Linux problem, but fedora could make it easier for
the users by not pushing out interface changes without coordinating with
driver providers.
if nvidia would get with the program and make
Free and Open drivers, then maybe they could be fixed.
Probably not - they would just be in the same shape as firewire and scsi
drivers that go months/years with bugs that don't get fixed.
Maintenance... sure, I run 'yum update' every few days, big deal :-).
I don't mind running the update - it's when things don't work
afterwards or a remote machine doesn't come back after a reboot that
is the problem.
I'm sorry to hear about your bad experiences. I've never had such
problems, though.
Maybe the person who builds the kernels has the same disk hardware as
you and has some reason to care if it works.
Given what it is, I'm sure some people have trouble with Fedora, and you
have my sympathy if you're one of them. I'm not convinced, however, that
such problems are the norm and not the exception.
And I'm not convinced that anyone even tries anything that matters with
fedora - or runs it across a large variety of hardware.
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