[Mageia-discuss] Nice review!

[Patricia Fraser]

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dick Gevers <dvgevers at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:51:22 +0200, Patricia Fraser wrote about
> > [Mageia-discuss] Nice review!:
> >
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>For our reading pleasure (and consideration):
> >>
> >>http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2076258/impressions-mageia-linux
> >>
> >>Kudos to these guys
> >
> > And to you!
> >
> 
> The only big problem they mention is the lack of decent video
> drivers for both Ati and Nvidia in the DVD. Will Mageia ever have
> those in the DVD or will it keep the "free" kind of version that
> Mandriva has?
> 
> If it was for me, I would include them but I don't know about the
> original reasons of why they are not.

The T42 they used is quite old, and that model of IBM Thinkpad had
a problematic Radeon card - I had loads of trouble with mine under
Mandriva, even when using the proprietary drivers.

I remember seeing loads of discussion about proprietary binary-only
stuff on this very list, several times. I think most of it can now be
found in the Tainted repos (that's where I found the codecs I
needed). It's a legal issue - there are potential Mageia users in
every country, and differences between licensing issues are very real.

The main thing is to provide some sort of fall-back video driver
(Vesa, anyone?) so that non-cli users can recover... and some
instructions... 8-)

Cheers,


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