X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules [LWN.net]

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 14:22 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by drag
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

I bought hardwares specificly because of Free software support [snip]

So did I. But I'm not too concerned.

Historically, if a large distribution does the "wrong" thing, someone will fork it. Once upon a time, Red Hat refused to include KDE, so Mandrake was created. I wouldn't be suprised if someone does something similar with Fedora, creating a "we don't care about your proprietary drivers" version.

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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 20:51 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

Just wait! In 2 months FC6 will be out and it will have those drivers.

Then you'll have all your happiness.

Just a few months.

Or install FC6Test2 and work from there.

-sv

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 17, 2006 14:26 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Just wait! ... Just a few months.

You mean just this one time? I think this will become a regular occurance, if we are all going to hang about and wait for companies to update their proprietary drivers.