Good bye

[Richard England]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>>
>> I'll never forget the bug report I filed with a repeatable (on my 
>> end) segmentation fault when running the grep command. Guess what was 
>> responsible? the nvidia driver.
>
> Ummm, OK, code has bugs.  More news at 11...
>
> > Closed source kmods sometimes
>> do funky things.
>
> As opposed to?  I've had several cases where the stock fedora kernel 
> update would not boot at all on MPT scsi controllers.
>
>> Let the *user* be responsible for breaking their machine by 
>> installing the driver. Then the issue is between the user and nVidia 
>> - not the user and Fedora.
>
> Let's put this discussion off until all the bugs in the rest of the 
> system have been fixed.  Firewire is my poster child for the state of 
> the system drivers, but it doesn't make sense to point out someone 
> else's bugs until everything in bugzilla is closed.  Besides, there's 
> a good chance that the bug you saw was really cause by an interface 
> change on the kernel side.
>
>> It is easy enough to get the drivers, it is very well documented on 
>> several blogs and websites.
>
> What does that mean?
>
>> Therefore, Fedora SHOULD wash their hands of kernel tainting modules.
>
> Unless they'd like to have some users.
>

Les,

What OS DO you like.  I'm just curious.

~~R