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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 16:54:05 UTC 2007
Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> Progress isn't a bad thing. Ranting at Fedora people because someone
>>> else's hardware isn't easy to make work on their OS is a bit silly
>>> though.
>>
>> But, but, but... What's the point of an OS if it doesn't make it easy
>> to use hardware????
>
> To operate the CPU(s) - hardware support is optional and often in
> obscure places absent or wonky at best.
If your i/o devices don't work, whether your CPU works or not becomes a
Heisnberg question. And the answer won't really matter.
>>> Would you moan at redhat if you couldn't get Oracle to work on it,
>>> yet Oracle claimed linux compatibility?
>>
>> Of course. There's not much excuse for screwing up interfaces that an
>> OS is supposed to provide.
>
> And the fact that everyone at Redhat would tell you to talk to Oracle
> for writing broken software wouldn't dissuade you?
I might peek at some strace output to see whether the system call
arguments or results were at fault.
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Les Mikesell
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