Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 15:54 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
> > Kim Lux wrote:
> >> installed before booting it.  In effect, teach her to rpm -q
> >> kmod-nvidia ?  Yeah, that seems user friendly.
> >>
> > Let's be realistic here, Linux for the masses (of mums) is just a plain
> > silly concept at the moment. 
> 
> No, I don't think it is a silly concept. Fedora is -fantastic- for 
> "mums" mostly because you can tell yum to update things nightly, and the 
> software magically takes care of itself! And no virus worries!
> 
> However, the closed driver module / kernel update issue breaks that ease 
> of set-and-forget. Which sucks. So I don't use kernel modules anymore...
> 
No it does not.   Have you heard of --exclude=kernel* ?


> I have my dad on FC5. It works very well! (Sorry, no benchmarks to 
> characterize my claims...)
> 
> 
> - Mike
>