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Re:In other words...

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 29, 2004 08:50 AM
does anybody know whether they ytried this trick from the beginning or employed it later as a reaction to user complaints (i can imagine that some users who are naive enough to buy computers with components that require binary only drivers would start to panick upon seeing the "tainted kernel" message)?



anyway, they would have been well advised to put a prominent message in the README file which explained what was going on.

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