randy . schmidt on 26 Oct 2007 02:34:12 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] OT OSX Leopard v10.5

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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT OSX Leopard v10.5
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:34:04 -0400
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If the the original post was OT, and we are now OT, does that mean we
are now  on topic?

On 10/25/07, Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > I hope I'm not alone in
> > my feeling that if we just keep on making our corner of the Universe a
> > little better, the closed software houses will fade into irrelevancy.
>
> Sadly, the success of this approach seems to be very irregular.  For
> example, I like a lot of things about KDE as a desktop.  But I gave up
> and bought a Mac because of neverending problems with suspend to RAM
> and wireless.  Part of the problem is that I like new hardware, and
> there's a long lag between release and acceptable Linux support.
> Another part of the problem (and perhaps the root of that previous
> one) is that hardware vendors often aren't on board.  It's gratifying
> to see Nvidia and ATI getting more involved with solid and/or open
> source drivers, and again, my X experience was fine.  But I need to be
> able to close my laptop in one place, open it in another, and have the
> networking work (and no freezes on suspend or resume).  Why is that so
> hard to achieve?  I guess because the small number of driver
> developers can't cover the vast array of devices.  It makes Apple seem
> really smart for picking a small number of configurations and making
> them work really well.  (But not as small and/or unimpressive a
> selection as Dell and Lenovo offer.)
>
> Anyway, bottom line, I think it's the hardware vendors that prevent
> the Linux corner of the Universe from edging out closed software
> houses, and that's a real bummer.  The software is by and large great.
>
> Thanks,
>        Aaron
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