__/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Thursday 13 July 2006 11:37 \__
> Jim wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> __/ [ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 13 July 2006 00:23 \__
>>>
>>>> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>>>>> Still didn't run "right out of the box" on my E-Machines T6216. No
>>>>>> audio, no networking, default video mode unable to display. Did
>>>>>> ctrl+alt+F5 back to a tty and ran fixme to start a GUI. Surprised to
>>>>>> see that XGL was running.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Question: What distro includes NVidia NForce support, APCI compiled
>>>>>> into the kernel, and XGL? I think I'm gunna install it and get things
>>>>>> working since I'm off work after having some foot surgery.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW I've got 10 years background in linux building my first Slackware
>>>>>> 3.1 box back in 96 and currently running a Redhat 8 box for a storage
>>>>>> / proxy / router server.
>>>>
>>>>> XGL is awesome! But what is the purpose of your question?
>>>>
>>>> I think he wants a cd bootable live distro that has nforce built in.
>>>
>>> Whichever distro it may be, this will probably be a GPL violation. I made
>>> suggestions before, but I am saddened to see they were no good... I know
>>> that SLED 10 (RC3 free download) can install NVidia drivers at ease.
>>> Here'e a shot:
>>>
>>>
>>
>
http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/SLED10:_Configuring_and_Using_Desktop_Effects_(Xgl)
>>
>
> Nice link: (There is currently no text in this page)
>
> Do you actually *read* URLs before posting them?
Peter, your news reader (like mine) treats the brackets as delimiters.
Clicking on them will have you led to a page that's not in the Wiki's
database (which makes the error message deceiving).
>> It can, but it has to download them first. Nothing in the GPL against
>> linking to NForce/GPU drivers, hell SuSE 9.2 has linkage in YAST for them.
>> Yes, it makes it easy. Much easier than the NINE-click Windows Way. No, it
>> isn't included in the distro because that would be a GPL violation.
>
> No, it is not
True.
>> My
>> guess would be that if you rolled-your-own and included NForce drivers in
>> the box, you couldn't distribute under GPL, you'd be constrained by
>> whatever license NVidia imposed.
>
> Bullshit.
> Please explain the presence of closed source code in SuSE, for example
SUSE/SuSE is not a good example. But as a matter of fact, one of the 'purer'
distributions -- that which included only Open Source in its image, as well
as its online repository, has turned to binary (proprietary) options, at
least on its repositories. That distro is Ubuntu and that change came with
Opera last week. The entry into the business world is likely to push this
further in that direction.
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