Non-free Extras?
David Nielsen
gnomeuser at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 10:50:27 UTC 2006
ons, 22 02 2006 kl. 05:03 -0500, skrev Benjy Grogan:
>
>
> On 2/22/06, Avi Kivity <avi at argo.co.il> wrote:
> Goede, J.W.R. de wrote:
>
> >Talking about solutions and not problems I propose:
> >-Fedora Extras (as is)
> >-Fedora Patent Encumbered (better name) aka
> > Debian non-US
> >-Fedora Non Commercial
> >-Fedora Non Free
> >
> >
> We would also need
> -Fedora for Non-Lawyers
>
> for ordinary users. How is one supposed to figure out where to
> look for
> things, and what all these repositories mean? This should be
> kept simple.
>
> Is there a way of including proprietary drivers with the Fedora
> Project? In time, Nvidia, ATI et al will definitely have the best
> available linux drivers for their hardware so it seems inevitable that
> proprietary drivers will have to be included in Fedora.
>
> They're giving away their drivers for free anyways.
No and on what do you base that statement, I find the best driver
currently to be the ATI r200 driver in the X.org tree and I would
contest that the OGC driver has potential to be another fine driver when
the card is delivered.
- David
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