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

[Les Mikesell]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>>> My point really was that since one would presumably
>>> have to go to freshrpms.net anyway to find out about it,
>>> it didn't matter too much whether RedHat gave a pointer or not.
>> How do you suggest that a new user might find out, for example, that
>> Nvidia gives away a driver and others package it for easy installation
>> in fedora?  - All perfectly legal and something many users would like to
>> know how to find.
> 
> (1) I don't think this is really relevant,

That's because you don't understand it.

> as the discussion was about packages of doubtful legality.
> There is no reason why Fedora should not direct people to nVidia's web-site,
> and I'm sure it is done somewhere in the voluminous Fedora documentation.

That's not the place to go to get an Nvidia driver packaged specifically 
for fedora in a repository suitable for installing via yum.

> (2) I would have thought even a very new user
> would try googling for "nvidia linux" or even "nvidia fedora",
> and quickly learn all there was to know on the subject.

Apparently you didn't do it very well.  When you find the right place 
you might also notice that the same repository contains working 
multimedia programs - but that's the part that's not really relevant 
here.  You might also not notice that.

> Personally, that would be the first thing I would do.

I bought a Mac so I wouldn't have to deal with the problem or put up 
with silly taunts about how bad proprietary drivers are...  Most people 
probably just go back to windows, though.

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    Les Mikesell
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