Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Les Mikesell]

David Boles wrote:
> on 7/5/2007 5:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> David Boles wrote:
>>
>>> You talkin' ta me Les?  ;-)  Probably not.  <sigh>
>>>
>>> First, before the speech. You mentioned nVidia by name. So here is a
>>> 'readme" for those that are interested. It is about 9 months old but it
>>> just goes to show what closed source software can do for you.
>>>
>>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
>> Not only is rather old....but the bug is fixed.  Checking nVidia's change log...
>>
>> 2006-10-19 version 1.0-8776
>>
>>     * Fixed Security Advisory R7-0025.
>>
>> So, the bug report is dated Oct 16, 2006 and fixed on Oct 19, 2006.
>>
>> Or, maybe that is what you wanted to point out?  I've not really been
>> reading this thread.
> 
> Did you read the whole post? You <sniped> the import part. I know it was
> long.  ;-)
> 
> That part, about NVida, was put in just to show that a Newbie that can't
> figure out how to do this in the first place sure as heck will not know
> how to fix it.

Errr, if they actually had the right instructions in the first place, 
fixing the one bug in this driver would be just like the gazillion bug 
fixes they will need for the open source parts of the fedora 
distribution:  "yum update".  I'm not quite sure what your point is in 
trying to pretend they are different.

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   Les Mikesell
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