open-vm-tools for Fedora

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 12:57:36 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 10:39 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > Neither, it's that out-of-tree kernel modules aren't allowed in Fedora.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341
> 
> Looks like a perfect candidate for rpmfusion.org

... and rather than helping to propagate the notion to vendors that out
of tree drivers are "okay", why not try to help work with the
maintainers to get the drivers upstream?  Maybe more effort, but in the
end it's far more rewarding as *all* Linux users who would care about
them benefit.

Jeremy




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