[PLUG] This is seriously good

[श्रीधर नारायण]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > the best i can say is, slackware by design is for expert( read bsd'ish)
> > users.

That is untrue. But at the same time it is matter of perception..

> Being bsd'ish is less of a problem than the hardware manufacturers not
> giving the specs of their hardware. Reverse engineering the hardware
> behaviour to write the drivers is always going to be sub-optimal than
> writing them straight from the specs.
> Graphics cards are the worst affected in this respect. Also WiFi.
> Next time if you can't run your hardware on Linux, blame the
> manufacturer, not Linux.

I think the OP referred BSDish is terms of configuration methods not the 
licensing..

 Shridhar.