X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules
X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules
Posted Aug 15, 2006 22:46 UTC (Tue) by brouhaha (guest, #1698)Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules
Mike Harris is quoted as having written:
Fedora does not support proprietary drivers at all, and never has, nor has any Red Hat OS that preceded it.Factually incorrect. Various early retail-box Red Hat Linux releases in the 4.x/5.x timeframe actually did include some proprietary software, including a proprietary X server with integrated drivers for hardware that was not supported by XFree86.
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