OT: Linux flavors...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:01:38PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:47:59PM -0400, Jay Ashworth may or may not have
> proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > Nope.  Avoid 9.1; it's not yet ready for prime time.  My perception of
> > the current concensus is Pro 9.0; that's what we're using with good
> > success.  The only problem I've found so far is that filePro's idea of
> > 'linux' isn't compatible with the SuSE console driver.
> 
> I never had a problem.  Dropped right in and console graphics, colours, and
> keymappings worked fine on the one I handled for someone.

I dunno; it gives up gobbeldygook and unmapped keys.

> > YOU is *nice*.  The only thing I see problems with concerns non-SuSE
> > kernel modules; these may require manual juggling when YOU updates a
> > kernel unless there's a mechanism I haven't learned yet -- I'm using
> > ndiswrapper to manage a client's laptop's Broadcom wireless card and it
> > didn't track the kernel upgrade from -226 to -231; I had to copy the
> > module manually and depmod.
> 
> You mean -proprietar- kernel modules.

I so don't.

>                                       That's an issue with any dist, not
> just SuSE.  The problem being that many vendors only seemed to release
> against RH's specific kernel patches, which does one little good indeed.
> But I always advocate avoiding hardware that requires proprietary drivers
> -anyway-.  Even if the support is there, the timing usually sucks in
> comparison to how quickly you need to upgrade for security.

The *module* is ndiswrapper itself, and *it* fails to be copied
forwards from the modules directory for the older kernel to the modules
directory for the newer one when YOU updates the kernel -- after I did
so by hand, it worked fine.

I rather suspect that this would happen with *any* module not part of
the stock kernel distribution, though I haven't checked yet, and I
propose to report it as a bug against YOU.

Cheers,
-- jra
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