randy . schmidt on 26 Oct 2007 02:34:12 -0000 |
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 > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Randy Schmidt randy@umlatte.com www.umlatte.com 267.334.6833 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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