GNewSense

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:03:57 +0100
Jaroslaw Gorny <jaroslav at aster.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Friday 02 of March 2007 18:44:01 Guy Johnston napisał(a):
> > (...)
> > I'm hoping that Dell's way of "supporting" GNU/Linux won't be to add
> > proprietary drivers to get it to work with their hardware, because
> > that would defeat the point of using it for people who do so
> > primarily because it respects their freedom.
> 
> I disagree. I know a whole crowd of people using Linux. And I can
> assure You, 99.9% of nVidia or ATI card users use proprietary drivers
> on their Linux systems (they just want to have acceleration on their
> accelerated cards, they have paid for this feature, didn't they?).
> So basically, they'd prefer Dell + preinstalled Linux + preinstalled
> drivers. It is important especially for newbies, that often have
> problems with installing/configuring this stuff by themselves.

Sure, but if you are selling a supported pre-installed machine, why use
a ATI or nVidia card at all? Just ship it with an intel card.
Everything works, no binary drivers, and just perhaps ati and nvidia
will realize that they are missing out on some sales and change their
ways down the road. 

> regards,

kevin
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