ATI video comes out of the closet

[Les Mikesell]

Dave Ihnat wrote:

>> What are talking about? Is it dificult to install or use Fedora? What's
>> the dificulty, I don't get it. Could you elaborate?
> 
> Fedora is an experimental OS.  Things break when new releases come out.
> It shouldn't be used for production.  But it's got all the latest
> coolstuff.  So?  What's the problem?

The problem is that the only way to get current applications which are 
evolving rapidly and have the cool stuff you want is to get them bundled 
with a wildly experimental kernel and device drivers that will regularly 
die underneath them.   I don't see the point of changing the kernel or 
drivers in a machine _ever_ once they work correctly except perhaps for 
security updates or when adding new hardware.  The semantics of what the 
kernel is supposed to be doing was established pretty well 30 years or 
so ago.

I realize that fedora isn't the distribution I wish it were, but I think 
everyone would be better off it there were a way to have Red Hat style 
administration, a stable kernel and device drivers, and up to date apps 
all in one distribution.  It isn''t nearly so traumatic to have an 
occasional crash or need to restart a single application as it is when 
the machine won't boot or you lose access to disk drives containing your 
data.

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    Les Mikesell
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