[PLUG] This is seriously good

[Ritesh Khadgaray]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:18 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote:
> > On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > the best i can say is, slackware by design is for expert( read bsd'ish)
> > > users.
> 
> That is untrue. But at the same time it is matter of perception..
> 
sorry for not being clear :
slackware is very bare with configuration utilities, in comparison with
mandriva or fedora.

> > Being bsd'ish is less of a problem than the hardware manufacturers not
> > giving the specs of their hardware. Reverse engineering the hardware
> > behaviour to write the drivers is always going to be sub-optimal than
> > writing them straight from the specs.
> > Graphics cards are the worst affected in this respect. Also WiFi.
> > Next time if you can't run your hardware on Linux, blame the
> > manufacturer, not Linux.
> 
> I think the OP referred BSDish is terms of configuration methods not the 
> licensing..
> 
>  Shridhar.
> 
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