Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 207.65.99.94]
on July 04, 2008 01:16 AM
Does anyone really care about "kernel version?" By just telling me the Distribution Name and Version number is good enough for me, I can figure out the kernel version from the Distrowatch web-site or even the distro's website. Not too many distro's send out the 2.4 AND the 2.6 version on the same disk anymore.
As for NVIDIA drivers, the only thing that should bother a linux user is that when he purchases an nvidia card, it has windows specific drivers and extra programs for the windows perusal. However, there is not one single copy of the linux driver on that same disk knowing good and well that it could fit on that disk. There is just no excuse not to include it. Windows users have to get online and update the driver, so can linux users but at least they will have a starting point just like the windows people.
I agree that codec discussion is a must. What good does it do to download an operating system, get online for the first time only to find out that no "rich" media from the web can be played on your computer, without rebooting into windoze. The philosophy of "all free, all the time" may be awesome, grand, and inspired. However reality is what it is, I like watching a youtube video with the best of them. I like seeing movie trailers with the best of them. I like hearing mp3 files with the best of them. When someone says, "wow! have you seen this video!" and I go online, I don't need some company telling me that the world community finds it unacceptable to include codecs. GET A LIFE!!! Warner Brothers, quicktime, or microsoft might sue RED HAT for including the codecs in their property since they are a money=making enterprise, but they won't sue the world if it's included in FEDORA, the "community"-developed Distro.
Finally out of the millions of Linux users in the world, how many actually modify code? I'll bet the one's that do know how to get it regardless of the review.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 207.65.99.94] on July 04, 2008 01:16 AMAs for NVIDIA drivers, the only thing that should bother a linux user is that when he purchases an nvidia card, it has windows specific drivers and extra programs for the windows perusal. However, there is not one single copy of the linux driver on that same disk knowing good and well that it could fit on that disk. There is just no excuse not to include it. Windows users have to get online and update the driver, so can linux users but at least they will have a starting point just like the windows people.
I agree that codec discussion is a must. What good does it do to download an operating system, get online for the first time only to find out that no "rich" media from the web can be played on your computer, without rebooting into windoze. The philosophy of "all free, all the time" may be awesome, grand, and inspired. However reality is what it is, I like watching a youtube video with the best of them. I like seeing movie trailers with the best of them. I like hearing mp3 files with the best of them. When someone says, "wow! have you seen this video!" and I go online, I don't need some company telling me that the world community finds it unacceptable to include codecs. GET A LIFE!!! Warner Brothers, quicktime, or microsoft might sue RED HAT for including the codecs in their property since they are a money=making enterprise, but they won't sue the world if it's included in FEDORA, the "community"-developed Distro.
Finally out of the millions of Linux users in the world, how many actually modify code? I'll bet the one's that do know how to get it regardless of the review.
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